Word: bill
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Santa Barbara, getting a lot of help from its home town referees, won the tournament with a two point decision over highly-regarded Texas Christian University the next night. T.C.U. had made the finals with a spectacular second half rally, overcoming a 17 point Loyola lead to win on Bill Swanson's last second layup...
...second half, Harvard outplayed the Dons, but, perhaps under the spell of U.S.F. alumnus Bill Russell or, as Harrison would have it, some rotten officiating, the victory went to the lesser outfit...
...telephoned message direct from Lyndon Johnson. "You have made us feel kin to those Europeans five centuries ago who first heard news of the New World," the President said. "You've seen what man has never seen before." The next day, Johnson fulfilled a tradition by promoting Bill Anders to lieutenant colonel after his first space flight...
...played confidently, looking to the sidelines now and then for reassurance from Dell. At every crucial point, Dell leaned forward in his chair and turned the palm of his hand downward. Meaning: cool it, baby. Though he started haltingly, Graebner soon found his booming serve and defeated Australian Bill Bow-rey 8-10, 6-4, 8-6, 3-6, 6-1. Ashe, as calm and poised as a man taking his morning constitutional, kept Southpaw Ray Ruffels puffing all over the court with his threadneedle forehand shots. Though he had to serve at three-quarter speed because of an ailing...
...study in American character or a social history of violence. But he does mount nice rogues' gallery snapshots of such Pinkerton-defying sinners as Confederate Spy Rose O'Neal Greenhow (whose charms earned her a peek at the blueprints of various forts around Washington) and "Old Bill" Miner, who held up his first stagecoach in 1866 and his last train in 1911. He also manages a rough-edged portrait of Founder Allan Pinkerton, No. 1 bloodhound of heaven...