Word: basketfuls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...giant among the giants. He wears a size 16D sneaker, and he can palm a basketball faster than a cop can palm an apple. In practice, he stands idly under the backboard sucking on a lollipop, dropping ball after ball into the 10-ft.-high basket-without ever leaving his feet. In a game, his specialties are the "dunk" shot (in which he leaps up and rams the ball through the hoop from above) and the "backward dunk" (the same thing, but backward over his head), and the only way anybody has figured out to stop him from scoring...
After hearing of his reinstatement, Eisenman discarded a sign reading "SHUCKS" which he had set up in his Lamont cubicle that morning, fished his white campaign carnation from the waste paper basket and pinned it to his lapel...
...play, two dazzling under hand lay-ups by Scully gave the Crimson a 62-58 lead, but Brown tied the score at 66-66. Harvard had the ball, and Scully drove in for another beautiful lay-up. But this time the referee called a palming violation which nullified the basket and set the stage for the last-minute agony...
...Kafka might retell it. A dusty, creaky, self-important postmaster rubber-stamps his way through bizarre, touching and humdrum encounters with the town's citizens. At skit's end, the postmaster is walking around with an inverted wastebasket covering his head. Poof! The postmaster disappears, but the basket is still there. This is typical of the evening's pseudoprofundities-here today, and a basket case tomorrow...
...lead after eight minutes had elapsed. The Engineers would pass the ball around for about a half minute to set up a play, and then invariably wind up trying a 30-foot fall-away jump shot. W.P.I. did not score from within 15 feet of the basket until ten minutes had passed...