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Word: basketfuls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Scully, high scorer for the freshmen last year, is the most promising sophomore on the varsity, and may become one the better youngsters in the League. An energetic play-maker with a tendency to drive hard for the basket, Scully, with some experience, should give the Crimson the scoring strength at guard it has missed...

Author: By Joseph M. Russin, | Title: Managers to Open Uncertain Season | 11/30/1962 | See Source »

...strikes that have cost more than 5,000,000 workdays. Many of these were caused by niggling jurisdictional disputes among 650 unions, which range in size from Frank Cousins' mammoth Transport and General Workers Union (1,200,000 members) to shrimps like the National Union of Basket, Cane, Wicker and Fibre

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: You're Not All Right, Jack | 10/19/1962 | See Source »

...agricultural situation, he said, was "complex and unusual." He blamed intense heat for a poor crop in the vast steppes of Siberia; he gave the same excuse for the virgin lands of northern Kazakhstan, where the harvest would be far below expectations. In the Ukraine, bread basket of the Soviet Union, the wheat crop was "somewhat worse than last year." but party officials hoped to meet their overall grain quota by producing more corn (used for cattle fodder) than last year. The only bright spot that Khrushchev reported was in Great Russia, where a "record" grain harvest was reaped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: Complex Means No Good | 10/12/1962 | See Source »

Touching the Rim. Brumel has a matinee-idol grin, a great fondness for watching U.S. television and a compulsion to jump-anywhere, any time, over anything. Standing in the Stanford gym before the meet. Brumel happily demonstrated his technique by leaping up under a 10ft.-high basket and touching the rim with his right foot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Topping the Kangaroos | 8/3/1962 | See Source »

...Break-the-House Breakfast Special," which offers orange juice, three eggs, three strips of bacon or ham, home fries, toast and two cups of coffee for 99 cents. Or the free bowls of pickles and potato chips on every table. Or even the Chicken-in-a in-a-Basket (85 cents...

Author: By Anthony Hiss, | Title: Milty's | 7/9/1962 | See Source »

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