Word: basketfuls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bartley gave the losers their only score by sinking a 50-foot push shot in the wrong basket. He added ten baskets and two foul shots to wind up as high scorer for both teams. By sinking the other point, D. A-. Resnick proved that Bartley is not infallible...
From the opening tap-off, Barnett followed Tebo like a hawk. Not until the thirteen-minute mark did Tebo score his first basket of the game, and that on a 30-foot set shot...
...that time, the Crimson's pre-game thesis--that if you stopped Tebo, you stopped Brown--had been proven. For when Tebo dropped in that first basket, the varsity held a commanding 34-18 lead, and led 45-31 at the half...
...earn the contempt of the battery commander. Gunner Asch wins his corporal's stripes and shows up the simple-mindedness of the goose-steppers. But by a superb irony, he is the final loser; through the simple expedient of throwing all the Asch-inspired reports into the waste basket, the commander restores discipline, and the battery reverts to glacierlike army routine...
...Ponder Heart (adapted from Eudora Welty's story by Joseph Fields and Jerome Chodorov) puts all its slightly addled eggs in one basket-the basket of charm. Since they are really all Easter eggs to begin with, the thing works out very well. The whole Southern small-town tale of a lovable, eccentric ne'er-do-ill put on trial for murder has a light pastel daffiness about it, a way of making life look delightfully woozy through wrong-prescription rose-colored glasses...