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Word: basketfuls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wilt Chamberlain and Chet Forte for big-college scoring honors, while his exasperated coach keeps urging him to shoot more often. But Grady prefers to feed the ball to his teammates. When he does decide to cut loose, he can connect from outside as well as from under-the-basket melees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Odd Assortment | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

...fishermen, loggers, chicken farmers and the elderly retired, whom Heath most commonly treats, are never embarrassed by oversize bills, sometimes settle accounts with the country doctor's traditional basket of eggs or a fresh-caught sockeye salmon. Last week the islanders found a different way of thanking "our beloved Doc." At Friday Harbor he was handed the keys to a new 20-room, $23,000 clinic, the finest in the area, financed by gifts from grateful patients and summer visitors. There were plenty of speeches, but after the ceremony Dr. Heath could hardly wait to celebrate in his usual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Amphibious Doctor | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

Bodman sunk two free throws and a basket at 14:30 to tie the score, 61-all. Then came Downs' nine points sandwiched around a Robinson tap-in, and the Elis were out in front to stay, 72 to 63. The rest was merely the formality of running out the clock, with Yale freezing the ball for a good portion of the last three minutes...

Author: By Frederick W. Byron jr., | Title: Varsity Quintet Bows To Yale Five, 75-67, As Robinson Shines | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

Wednesday night, at Dartmouth, the Elis grabbed the league lead on a substitute's last minute basket and will certainly be very careful not to lose it against the underdog Crimson...

Author: By John A. Rava, | Title: Varsity to Oppose Favored Yale Five In Contest Tonight | 3/2/1957 | See Source »

...chronic, that man, a bit of a bludger, and maybe even a tea leaf. He not only smoodges Smiley into some mauldy business with the abos, but before you know it, he's up to putty with the new schoolteacher (Jocelyn Hernfield)-now there's a basket of oranges!-whom he would obviously like to blackbird...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 25, 1957 | 2/25/1957 | See Source »

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