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Word: basketfuls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Picked by Basketball magazine as one of the top ten players in the East. Hayes breaks the all-time B. U. scoring record every time he makes a basket. A 6'4? forward, he averaged 25.7 points per game last season and carried his team to a 14-10 record...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Five Must Stop Terriers' Hayes to Win | 12/11/1969 | See Source »

Harvard coach Bob Harrison, who hopes his team will be ready for Hayes and the Terriers, will employ several defenses designed to keep Hayes away from the basket...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Five Must Stop Terriers' Hayes to Win | 12/11/1969 | See Source »

...Redmen led at halftime. 53-46. but Harvard's freshmen, who fulfilled preseason expectations by their good shooting and rebounding, stormed back in the second half on the strength of several fast breaks and three field goals literally dropped into the basket by Floyd Lewis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: St. John's Courtmen Win; Varsity Vanquished, 72-63 | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

Loesser was as single-minded about his work as any compulsive crapshooter. Rising at 5 every morning, he toiled long and hard, pruning his tunes and polishing his words. "For every song I let out," he once said, "there are six in the basket that nobody will ever see." A small (5 ft. 6 in.), tough-talking, chainsmoking man, he reminded some of George Raft, others of a Guys and Dolls bookie. To keep busy in his off hours he took up hobbies (painting, carpentry), and from time to time he expressed the hope that they would help him give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Composers: A Most Melodious Fella | 8/8/1969 | See Source »

...have provided a brisk Bondist thriller. Instead, he has followed the B-line of movies of the '40s: a lone Amur-rican good guy against the Yellow Peril. For Imperial Japan, read People's Republic of China; for Alan Ladd, read Gregory Peck. The Chairman is a basket of bromides-except for one original line that ought to be anthologized. The chemist who developed the soil enricher murmurs to Hathaway: "We are none of us free. We are all chained to an enzyme." During the filming of The Chairman in Hong Kong, Communist Chinese newspapers warned the cast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Movies: Chained to an Enzyme | 7/11/1969 | See Source »

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