Word: basketfuls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...substitute sank a basket, making the final score 82 to 77. Bradley lost by less than seven points, and consequently the players were given only $75 each...
...Into West Berlin on the subway came Karel Douba, 32, who claims to be the ping-pong champ of northern Czechoslovakia, and his blonde girl friend. They told how they had crossed the Czech border by carrying a basket of mushrooms and posing as pickers. In the Soviet zone of Germany they thumbed a ride, found that the driver who slowed down to pick them up was a Red policeman. He took them to Berlin without question. Douba said he recently finished serving a year's jail term imposed when a Communist agent heard him joking in a restaurant...
...balletlike warmups, the Russians invariably pounded on to the court and confounded opponents with rifle passes, cat-quick ball handling, and a rough & ready determination to get the ball off the backboards. Best Russian play: a fast U.S.-style break, three or four sleight-of-hand passes under the basket which left the befuddled defense falling all over itself, while one of the Russian outside men dunked the ball into the basket...
...hammering echoed up & down the mountain-more noise than the little campus had ever heard, since the day Pastor Kelly first opened it in 1926 with twelve would-be mountain preachers. By 8 a.m. the floor beams were down on the foundations prepared beforehand. By noon, when the basket lunches were served, the main framework of the cottages was up. By 3 p.m. there were walls; by 4, doors and windows. By sunset, men were working on the roofs...
...Indoor Athletic building. Newell Boat House, and Hemenway leave more to the student's conscience than Dillon. Each incoming students is given a ford and is expected to throw it in a large laundry basket when done. there is no check other than routine screening as they leave...