Word: basketfuls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Great Escape. "We have put all our rotten eggs in one basket," says the commandant of Stalag Luft North to the senior officer of a newly arrived group of Allied officer prisoners, "and we intend to watch that basket very carefully. With your cooperation, we may all sit out the war very comfortably." But every man in the maximum-security camp knows it is an officer's duty to escape and harass the enemy. The Great Escape, based on Paul Brickhill's first-hand account, tells in almost hypnotic detail how a mixed bag of P.W.s work together...
...Miss It! Miss It!" That brilliant steal should have taken the heart out of Los Angeles. But no. The teams traded baskets, and then, with 43 sec. left, the Lakers' Dick Barnett flipped a spectacular reverse-spin shot into the basket and was fouled in the process. Barnett sank the free throw, and Boston's lead was only a point. The next basket would tell the story. Cousy floated a jump shot toward the basket. The ball banged the rim, caromed crazily into a tangle of flailing arms. A roar went up. Laker Rookie Gene Wiley...
...babies dead shortly after birth and another 3,000 with grotesque malformations, because their mothers had taken the sleeping-pill tranquilizer thalidomide during early pregnancy. What was to become of the little victims? With legs and arms deformed or missing, some of the babies promised to be lifelong basket cases. All seemed unequipped to face their uncertain future...
Elgin Baylor and Jerry West paced the Laker victory; Baylor scored 43 points and West finished the game with 32. Baylor made a key basket in the final period which put Los Angeles ahead to stay. The Lakers had trailed the Celtics by five points at the start of the fourth quarter...
...programs? Truth is, a lot of congressional Democrats are no more enthusiastic than Republicans about those programs. For example, at a White House meeting Democratic leaders were urged to bring the youth employment bill to a floor vote-if only as something to put in the Easter basket. The leaders demurred, arguing that they could not count on their party's rank and file to vote favorably. A defeat now, they insisted, would make everything even tougher for the Administration later...