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Word: basketfuls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Army, where he picked up the rough, driving style of play that is his forte. Wilson has smoothed our Cuff's brawling methods, and he feels that the 6 ft., 3 in. junior will be the team's offensive mainstay. Cuff is particularly effective with his back to the basket...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Basketball Squad Shows Mixed Pre-season Talent | 12/2/1959 | See Source »

This week, hobbling on a cane to prop a leg hurt on an Italian holiday last summer, the old Chancellor prepared to fly to London to persuade Britain that the Federal Republic has not put all its eggs in De Gaulle's basket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: Discontented Ally | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

...abstinence. . . so long as it doesn't do anyone any harm,") Holbrook doesn't hesitate to show the "darker" side of Twain, ranging from a discourse on why men really aren't the best animals in creation to more pointed and direct statements, such as humanity is a "basket of festering corruption. . . for the support and protection of microbes...

Author: By Pauline A. Rubbelke, | Title: Mark Twain Tonight | 11/14/1959 | See Source »

Enlivened by the music, the crowd loudly applauded Captain Hank Keohane when he declared that this football team was made up of students and not "basket-weaving or fly-casting majors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 500 Applaud Yovicsin at Football Rally | 11/7/1959 | See Source »

...most original sculptor in history. Not content with carving and modeling, Picasso sculpts by a third method: combining. He will make a bull's head out of a bicycle seat, with handle bars for horns, or a pregnant goat from a palm branch (for the back), a wicker basket (for the belly) and flowerpot udders, or a monstrous monkey, using a toy automobile for a head, a beach ball for a body. Cast in bronze, the results are more invigorating than inspiring, but they can help anyone to see better into the physical world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Maker of Images | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

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