Word: froze
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With less than half a minute left, Dennis was fouled while he froze the ball, and sank both shots to widen the Harvard lead to 49 to 46. Seconds later, Condon--who was hot from the outside with his sets--netted one of his free throws to end the scoring...
...eyed and incoherent widow and their four children, they huddled in a 15-by-30-ft. tent, which they shared with three others in a Pusan slum. Cardboard stuffed along the sides blocked out some of the cold, but in the middle of the room a pan of water froze quite hard. At week's end nobody from the Army had called on the family; a spokesman explained that "no administrative procedures have been drawn" to handle this sort of thing...
Then it happened. One night in December 405, the Rhine froze, and a German raiding party crossed. They found only shadow garrisons against them; the Legions had been called back to Italy to resist Alaric. The word spread, and by spring the unopposed German tribes had overrun eastern Gaul and were pouring west to the sea and south to the Pyrenees. Britain was cut off from Rome-and the Dark Ages were approaching on the double. But these matters were hard to sense fully in misty Britain. All that seemed perfectly clear to some of Felix's bolder friends...
After Dennis dropped in two jump shots, Manning netted a foul shot with three minutes to play, tying the game, 66-all. B.C. froze the ball until the last 12 seconds and then missed three chances for the winning basket before time...
...Miserable War. A yard from the summit the two sergeants froze. Just ahead, almost within touching distance, a Chinese stood vaguely silhouetted against the dark sky. They tensed to tackle him; their mission was to bring back a prisoner. But in that split second, warned by smell or some faint sound, the Chinese touched the trigger of his burp gun. Main shot the prisoner-to-be instantly and regretfully with his .45, but the second sergeant rolled backward down the hill with an astounded gasp, slugs in his arm, leg and belly. After that the night was noisy with gunfire...