Word: laying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Scully who did most of the damage. He had 15 points during the last nine minutes of play, and 24 for the game. When Scully tries his twisting, underhanded lay-up against experienced big men, he frequently winds up picking leather from between his teeth. But the Brobdingnagian Indian sophomores were baffled by his tactics...
...Harvard trailed by only 34-29 at the half, thanks to a three-point play by the public address announcer. With four seconds left, Brown's Dave Tarr drove in for a lay-up and collided with Merie McClung. Before the referee made a call Harvard manager Jerry Kapstein announced "Offensive foul!" and as a reflex action the referee trotted down the court to give McClung his foul shots. By that time it was too late to reverse the decision he hadn't made...
With 5:50 to play, two dazzling under hand lay-ups by Scully gave the Crimson a 62-58 lead, but Brown tied the score at 66-66. Harvard had the ball, and Scully drove in for another beautiful lay-up. But this time the referee called a palming violation which nullified the basket and set the stage for the last-minute agony...
...health of our people is, inescapably, the foundation for fulfillment of all our aspirations," declared President Johnson in his special message to the Congress outlining a broad health-care program that he termed "practical, prudent and patient." Its goal, he said, was to lay a firm foundation for "the healthiest, happiest and most hopeful society in the history...
Such lines are poetry only by courtesy; they justify Robert Graves's sardonic gibe: "What I like most about Eliot is that though one of his two hearts, the poetic one, has died and been given a separate funeral . . . he continues to visit the grave wistfully, and lay flowers on it." But Eliot could still strike off at will his unique amalgam of silver and sudden brimstone...