Word: knicks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...When Dave DeBuschere was hurling baseballs and bombing basketballs as a senior for the University of Detroit Titans, what sophomore guarded the Knick great during a regular season game and later went on to follow Dave's dual sport life, but unlike Dave chose the diamonds rather than the hard-court? (Hint: now a big league pitcher for a team with a sourthern exposure...
...Ancient Times and Today" is worth a visit, but is spotty in quality and disorientingly diverse. In its attempt to represent the folk arts of all 15 republics, to present works from the fourth millenium B.C. to the present, it often deteriorates into a hodge-podge of interesting knick-knacks...
...Knick strategy worked to improbable perfection in the first game against Los Angeles. "We knew what they were going to do," sighed West, "and they did it." Added Coach Sharman: "Wilt made an effort to go out on Lucas, but he wasn't quite fast enough and he got caught lots of times in no man's land." That not only left Pivotman Lucas free to score well from the outside, but it also opened up the lane for his teammates. Chamberlain was seldom able to get into position to clear the boards and toss his football-like...
...tension was noticeably high on both teams before the important their game. As John Kiely, the Garden's organist tickled the keys of his Whirling Wurlitzer" in a stepped up tres vito Jerry Lucas, the Knicks center, paced up attention poised Knick bench. This was it. If the Celts lost, they would be down 3-0 facing elimination in New York on Friday...
...punk, only a little better than the authority figures he confronts, and no better than the elders he kills and rapes. If his NADSAT slang, composed of Russian, rock and road talk, is an attractive reaction against official jargon, the scientific tomes of a donnish type and the antique knick-knacks collected by a starry old lady are more touching attempts to preserve personal cultural interests. Aside from the attractions of the language, Burgess uses Alex's tunnel vision in order to balance his own hard knocks at government regimentation. After much discussion of the primacy of Free Will...