Word: match
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, the Torinos took off in a chartered airliner for a routine training match against a Portuguese team (which defeated the Italians). On the flight home, lost in a soupy fog, the plane crashed into the Basilica on Superga Hill above Turin (where the members of Italy's former royal house are buried). Dead in the flames were all eleven members (and seven reserve players) of the Torinos team...
...literally, basket) is a seven-card meld, and if a player makes it the hard way (using no wild cards), the bonus is 500 points. Scoring can run into the thousands in a single hand; 5,000 points is game. In most forms of rummy the object is to match up the cards and get out fast; in Canasta the idea is to stay in and roll the score...
...freshman tennis team was able to win its match with Williams by a score of 7 to 1 Saturday, before a late afternoon downpour rained out the last doubles match...
This afternoon's match at Princeton is the second and last leg of the team's weekend tour...
...freshman golfers have cancelled their tentative match with MIT, scheduled for today...