Word: behind
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Oxford, which had issued a challenge to play the best Harvard intramural basketball team, was "fast-breaked off the floor," as one player put it. The Bellboys, paced by Goldie Goldsmith (26 points), John Altrocchi (24), and Mike Post (17), were continually getting behind the Oxford defenses with hard, accurate passes, and scoring on simple shots...
...Bender said he did not understand the logic behind a deferment system which deliberately would keep the most intelligent men out of the armed forces...
...prospered during its vacation vigil on its pine tree behind University Hall, with holiday banquest adding over a pound to its already well-filled frame, a check-up revealed yesterday...
Cousy is the chief magician in Holy Cross' crowd-pleasing give-and-go, behind-the-back pass system. And his soft, tantalizing push shot is the most dangerous single weapon in the Crusader arsenal. It helped the Cross win the NCAA title two years ago, and just missed upsetting Kentucky in the same tourney last winter...
...Italian urchin. He falls asleep, and the boy steals his shoes. Waking, the MP chases the child to its bombed-out home, where, confronted by the sight of utter poverty and despair, he can only turn and flee back to the city, leaving his shoes and his anger behind in the ruins...