Word: lost
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Then came the decisive play of the evening. Harvard stole the ball but missed the shot and the Bruins' Greg Donaldson brought the ball up court. Pressed by Eric Gustavson he lost the ball toward the sideline. In the ensuing scramble the referee called a foul on Gustavson...
...next three Harvard men--Larry Terrell, Jose Gonzalez, and Captain Rick Sterne--have all done battle with Martin. Sophomore Terrell, last year's National Junior Champion, has lost to the the Canadian twice this year, but both matches were heart-breakers. Gonzalez, who took the National Junior Championship his freshman and sophomore years, stopped Martin this year. Former Freshman Intercollegiate Champion Sterne has also beaten Martin...
Hull can also be stellar in a Keller. "One day after a White Sox game," he says, "a bunch of us were sitting around a Michigan Avenue bar having a few, when this guy comes up and starts getting pretty obnoxious. I tell him, 'Get lost, creep,' and he looks at me and says, 'You know something, buddy? You're a -,' I reach across the table, grab his tie, give it a half-turn, and cork him one. Then I slam his head down on the table, and it breaks a couple of beer bottles...
Five days later, after the Red Wings had beaten the Hull-less Hawks in Detroit, Bobby was back on the ice. His nose was packed with medicated gauze, his eyes were swollen almost shut. He still played, and scored a goal, though Chicago lost. "Worse yet," says Bobby, "I got elbowed in the nose, so I had to go back to the doc next day when we returned to Chicago and get my nose set again." He played the next night, and scored another goal, but Detroit won again to take a 3-2 lead in the best-of-seven...
...France in the shadow of the guillotine, Sanche de Gramont, Parisian journalist and historian (The Secret War, The Age of Magnificence), has done a heel measurement and sneeze count on his country's monarchy in its declining years. His conclusion confirms Giraudoux's epigram: The monarchy literally lost its head when it lost its style...