Word: basketfuls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Canada's funny-money Social Credit movement, which held 19 seats in the old House of Commons. Surveying the wreckage of his party's national ambitions, Alberta's Social Credit Premier Ernest Manning offered a wry jest: "The voters have put all their eggs in one basket and shot...
Indelicate is one word to describe Washington newsmen who keep harping to Ike about his health and reduction of his work load. These patriots err by putting all their eggs in one basket. If they are really concerned for the country's good, let them also visit the halls of Congress where absenteeism is said to be high...
...improbable-looking champion indeed. When he puts on his basketball uniform he looks like an absent-minded scientist who left home without his trousers. The illusion ends when the game starts. Then the Bird's loose, court-covering lope, his deft shots, his imperturbable balance in under-the-basket brawls, all blend into a 6-ft.-5-in., 195-lb. paragon of pro basketball...
...among the pros. Now as then, the rougher the game, the better Yardley likes it. He says that he scores best when a guard is climbing all over him: "When a guy is on top of you, you know where he is. You can watch the basket." Yardley has driven the Pistons to a place in the National Basketball Association championship playoffs. All their opponents know that if bothering Yardley makes him dangerous, leaving him free to shoot might turn him into-well, a man who would set a record that nobody could hope to break...
Invitation to Yearning. In Stourbridge, England, after Elizabeth Poulton, 53, spotted a supermarket sign reading "Please Take a Basket," took one home, returned for another a week later, and won the judge's swift verdict that she was not guilty of theft ("Why shouldn't someone take one?"), the store manager removed the sign...