Word: basketfuls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Douglas kept at it. One day he turned up with a basketful of plastic edibles to make a compelling demonstration of just how little a relief family was getting. While he was addressing his colleagues, they stole the exhibit, sawed the pork chops in half, used the basket as a portable men's room. They bedeviled his witnesses, dug up old ordinances to confound him. Douglas confessed to friends: "I have three degrees. I have been associated with intelligent and intellectual people for many years. Some of these aldermen haven't gone through the fifth grade. But they...
...Madison Square Garden last week the St. John's basketball team did everything wrong but shoot at its own basket. For a topflight team, their ball handling was wretched, their close-in shooting slovenly. With 45 seconds to play and St. John's three points behind, all that Utah had to do to score an upset victory was to freeze the ball until time ran out. Then prosperity went to Utah's head...
...survive its schedule. But after five warm-up games in Brooklyn, St. John's moved across the river to Madison Square Garden and plastered Louisiana State, 80-49. Big (6 ft. 6 in.) Sophomore Center Zeke Zawoluk picked basketballs off the backboards and Gerry Calabrese peppered the basket with deadly accuracy from the "outside." Unlike most Midwestern teams, which specialize in the fast break, St. John's has a collection of set-shot artists who do not weave in unless they feel frisky...
Rockwell's nine points seriously undercut his shooting average; the tall pivot player has been averaging more than 20 points a game, and produced 30 against Holy Cross. Smith, who teams with Rockwell under the basket, was even more disappointing with a field goal and a free throw...
After spotting the Spartans a nine to one lead in the first three minutes, the quintet found the basket, built up a 36 to 29 halftime lead, and kept at least eight points ahead for the rest of the game. Harvard sank only 50 per cent of its foul shots, but even at that collected 22 points...