Word: paired
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they pleased. They did everything a good basketball team should do. They moved easily through the Harvard defense, hit from both the outside and inside, controlled the boards, intercepted Crimson passes, and put on ball-handling exhibitions that had the crowd roaring. Bob Cousy and Andy Laska, a pair of juniors, topped the Cross scoring parade with 16 points apiece, most of them coming on long push shots...
...When Nature Fumbles, We Carry the Ball." In most of the other skits she has little to do: in one she stands behind a restaurant counter and pushes a pie in a customer's face; in another she soberly walks across the stage in a straight line, carrying a pair of skis and is very funny just doing that; in another she serves as a bean-bag for a couple of South American caballeros...
...livelier passages of this tale are all in the '90s and have to do with waltzes and schottisches, gay guardsmen and ruffly romance. When the old general harrumphs his warnings to his niece, the advice seems wasted on a relatively insipid pair (Keyes and Farley Granger). Niven and his lost sweetheart (Teresa Wright) steal the show so completely that in the end it becomes a plea for the past tense, on almost any terms...
...Eagles showed ample evidence to support their top rating in local hockey circles. They had shooting power to spare, passing that consistently found a free man in a dangerous spot, and a first defense pair that spent the evening spilling ambitious Crimson forwards...
...cover Ed Leede tonight. He held him to 16 points in two games last winter." Leede, the Big Green's six foot three captain, can hit. He scored "27 points last year and looks like a possible all-American forward. Emil Hudak and Wes Field, a pair of juniors, are the other Indian triggermen...