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Word: basketfuls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...defensive court, the varsity employed a highly effective floating zone, which forced the Terriers to work outside. B.U. had been found to be most dangerous from close to the basket by Yardling Coach Floyd Wilson, who scouted the Terriers in their victorious 53-50 opener against Clark...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Five Defeats BU; Blodnick, Sacks Total 39 | 12/7/1953 | See Source »

...repeatedly stepped on the court, and picked up two technical fouls before the game ended. On the home team bench, Norm Shepard watched more calmly and could hardly be blamed for having a slightly pleased expressing on his face.DICK MANNING (23) bumps GASTREL RILEY, as he drives toward the basket...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Five Defeats BU; Blodnick, Sacks Total 39 | 12/7/1953 | See Source »

...business to scare the living daylights out of children. As little Hans or Fritz, cowering behind his mother's skirts, diffidently proclaims his virtue, Krampus rattles a huge chain or lashes the air with a switch in menacing disbelief. Sometimes he even comes equipped with a large basket in which to carry off young people whose stories clearly won't wash. However virtuous Junior's conduct during the preceding year may have been, a bout with Krampus usually leaves him shattered but determined to improve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Throw Out Krampus | 12/7/1953 | See Source »

...lived in the canyon. They turned its widest caves into apartment houses big enough for hundreds of families each, and decorated the walls with mysterious figures such as the rabbits at left. Still farther back in the darkness of the canyon's Stone Age lived the so-called Basket Makers, who had no pottery and no bows & arrows. Like Europe's earliest painters, they pictured their own hands flat against the rock, as if to say simply: "We were here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Prehistoric Pictures | 12/7/1953 | See Source »

...Roman Room" of a restaurant named Sasha's Palate, the tired moviemaker can lie down to a juicy buffalo steak, in what Hollywood considers Roman fashion. Upon entering the candlelit, gold-draped room, the diners toss their shoes into a basket and recline on a five-foot-wide divan which stretches around the walls. Sinking into a sea of pillows (45 in all) and gazing at a projection screen showing a Roman garden, the guests are served by waitresses dressed in silky purple pantaloons and boleros. In addition to buffalo steak, Sasha's offers such items as suckling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Back to Pompeii | 11/30/1953 | See Source »

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