Word: basketfuls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...often neither Scott nor Williams was under the basket when the Crimson took its shot -- and that was one of the reasons the Crusaders dominated rebounding so completely. Furthermore, whenever Williams took a shot from outside he failed to follow it up; that's inexcusable...
...most publicized football player in the country. The Hungarian-born soccer-style kicker has broken just about every national field goal kicking record. He has booted 15 this year (in 19 attempts) and has kicked 42 consecutive extra points from if the Princeton backfield were comprised of four basket cases, the Tigers would still have an effective offense with Gogolak...
Since then, inventing Super Ball games has become as big a fad as the ball itself. Little girls have taken to Super-Balling the jacks (it is hardly a contest), office workers place bets to see who can bounce the ball into a wastepaper basket, and skateboarders now bounce Super Balls as they roll along. Another popular game is giving the ball lots of spin, bouncing it against the wall, and seeing how many times it will bounce back to the wall before stopping. The unofficial record: five hits...
...ebullient Lyndon Johnson invited just about everyone in Washington to "come on down to the signin'." In all, he signed five new bills and dispensed no less than 600 souvenir pens worth $1.80 each. At one ceremony a sweating aide lugged the pens around in a market basket. For the throngs of Congressmen, Governors, mayors, foreign ambassadors and civil servants who turned out for the various ceremonies, the President also had a thesaurus of superlatives for each new law and ever more dazzling visions of the Great Society. The Best. At the National Institutes of Health in suburban Bethesda...
Levant the wit hurls poisoned shafts. Proposing a movie based on his own life, he casts Rosalind Russell in the title role, then decides she is too masculine. Leonard Bernstein "uses music as an accompaniment to his conducting." Oscar also punctures himself. "I'm a neurotic basket case," he says early in the book. "My health is so bad that I may well be the next Premier of India." With the approach of old age-Levant will be 59 this year-the wit yields to the neurotic basket case. The reader is endlessly treated to clinical accounts, some written...