Word: footing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Switzer, whom Harper is using more and more as an alternate for six foot three center John Stevenson was high scorer for the Crimson yesterday with 12 points. Gerry Murphy, who played a polished game, followed closely with 11. Tabor drew what compensation they could out of the fact that their left forward, Morgan, piled up the most individual points...
...Malmédy massacre of captured U.S. soldiers, during the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944, was one of the most vicious atrocities committed by Germans in combat during the war. By the testimony of one survivor (who escaped by feigning death after he was shot in the foot), some 160 U.S. soldiers were lined up in a snow-covered field, eight deep and 20 abreast, and raked by machine-gun fire for three minutes...
...Ceremonies Annette Mills appeared at her piano and ran through the opening bars of We Want Muffin, watching children squirmed with anticipation. Then Muffin, a black & white puppet with a straggly mane and a shabby velvet saddle, came clattering across the piano. As always, he blundered about, got his foot tangled in Annette's teacup, finally collapsed in a dither of excitement. As always, the TV audience shrieked with pleasure. Then Muffin solemnly announced his resolve for 1949: "Be kind to humans...
...Felton '48 took time off from the Business School this weekend to break the New York 35 pound shotput record by over a foot. His 57 foot 9 1/2 inch heave, only 10 inches short of the world's record, helped the New York Athletic Club into fourth place Saturday afternoon in the senior New York Metropolitan track championships on Columbia's wind-swept South Field...
...foot four inch Bernie Adams, Princeton center and high scorer, with 17 points, worked in the bucket for most of the evening and scored or set up two-thirds of the Tigers' points in the first half. His passes and fakes made the Princeton plays work, and it was the second half before the Crimson started guarding effectively enough to upset the Tiger system...