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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...
...Much Promise. The courtroom hissed, however, when slight, shifty Roger Perreau, husband of Pierre's light-of-love, testified that he had refused to interfere with his wife's affair with Pierre because "I didn't want any fuss or scandal." It froze into stony silence when redhaired, creamy-skinned Jeanne Perreau herself announced: "I have a husband who is a good companion. I intend to stay with him. Pierre Chevallier loved me. I loved him. For love, one is never punished...
...tree's range is unbelievable. If grows in the tropics, in higher altitudes above 7,000 feet and in practically every European country. Chaney reports that 50 trees lived through the 1949 Alaskan winter during which the earth froze to a depth of four feet. They are said in Finland to have survived a minimum temperature of 50 degrees centigrade...
...Margrutte Hall sued her husband for $6,000 damages, charging that she would have had a "desirably situated" apartment, if he had not 1) removed a door, 2) taken down the chimney so the soot blew back in, 3) made a twelve-foot opening in the basement wall which froze the pipes and deprived her of running water...