Word: foulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There were three minutes left on the clock and the Crimson was trailing by eight but closing in rapidly. Ray McGuire stole the ball and drove for an easy layup--but there was a mid-air collision. No foul was called and St. Thomas More scored quickly...
Costly second half Radcliffe turnovers helped MIT build a 37-30 lead with just four minutes to play. Meyers then scored the next four points, but missed a foul shot with only two minutes left...
...next move was obvious, at least to the crowd. Thal ignored chants to foul an MIT player and instead stole the ball and drove the length of the court for a layup. MIT led, 39-38, with just 32 seconds left...
Brown took a 55-52 lead, and after Jonas Honick had cut the margin to one, Brown's Brian Saunders--22 points, 12 rebounds--made two foul shots, clinching the Bruins victory with nine seconds...
...counts, it is everything. As the genre's undisputed queen of the maze, she laid her tantalizing plots so precisely and dropped her false leads so cunningly that few-if any-readers could guess the identity of the villain. The reader surrenders to an enigma in which the foul act of murder seems less a sin against man or God than a breach of etiquette...