Word: laying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Consecutive lay-ups enabled the Crimson (43 percent from the floor, 77 percent from the line) to extend its lead to seven points as the game headed into the final eight minutes, but the Big Red's 50 percent second-half field goal shooting kept the contest close...
...sophomore guard from Broomall, Penn., who registered 12 points, five assists, and three rebounds on the evening, jumped in front of a Cornell pass, slapped the ball ahead to herself, and raced down the floor. Keffer was tackled as she attempted to go up for the lay-up but calmly stepped up to the line and sank the two free throws...
...Longacre, 17: "You feel like if you make one mistake, your future is gone." Bryan's principal, John McQuinn, pointed to prosuicide rock lyrics, complaining that "we have a 'life is cheap' philosophy fed to young people." Others expressed the wistful hope that somewhere in the seemingly pointless deaths lay a lesson for the community. Said Assistant School Superintendent Rene Hlavac: "The three young people left us a message and we need to search and find...
...authorities to confiscate the book. Early last week his Soviet guards tried again to seize it. In desperate fury, the prisoner defied his captors by throwing himself into the snow. "I said I would not leave without the Psalms that had helped me so much," he later explained. "I lay down in the snow and said, 'Not another step.' " The guards scrutinized the book carefully, then handed it back. The elaborately negotiated release of Anatoli Shcharansky, one of the Soviet Union's most famous political prisoners and a symbol of the plight of Soviet Jews and human rights dissidents alike...
...West. Next to "Remember the Alamo," the most threadbare sampler this side of the Pecos must be retired College Publicist Jones Ramsey's familiar line, "There're only two sports in Texas--football and spring football." Former University of Texas Basketball Coach Abe Lemons laments, "You can lay a football down in a parking lot and draw a crowd," but college jump shooters have been a rougher sell in the Lone Star State. Historically, pro basketball has been no bonanza either. One night in 1973, the Dallas Chaparrals of the American Basketball Association counted 130 paying customers and moved...