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Word: basketfuls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Game Ends in Doubt | 3/8/1956 | See Source »

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...

Author: By John E. Grady, | Title: Varsity Five Closes Season, Defeats Brown Squad, 70-66 | 3/8/1956 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By John E. Grady, | Title: Varsity Five Closes Season, Defeats Brown Squad, 70-66 | 3/8/1956 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Privates Can't Win | 3/5/1956 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Feb. 27, 1956 | 2/27/1956 | See Source »

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