Word: rebounds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...late stages was the bane of the game. A team that found itself a few points ahead near the end would simply pass the ball around from player to player, without trying for a basket (which would mean losing possession if the shot failed and the opponents grabbed the rebound). The trailing team would then deliberately foul to get possession (risking a one-point foul shot for a a possible two-point basket). The leading team would then foul back, and the game would dissolve in a dreary welter...
...varsity was quick to tie the score at the start of the second period when Frank Mahoney slapped in a rebound of Captain Scott Cooledge...
Inside left Mauricio Toro gave the Crimson a 1-0 lead after five minutes of play on a solo break, and center forward Grey Hodnett knocked in a rebound two minutes later to push the varsity lead to two goals...
...reason for the rebound is that businessmen, who make their dollars-and-cents decisions without regard to politics, are betting on an expanding prosperity. Those who were scared by all the recession talk a year ago and decided to stop ordering while they used up their inventories have stepped up buying again. Auto dealers, who were overloaded with cars a year ago, seem confident that they will be able to clean out their stock to make way for the 1955 models...
...Golden Girl. Elizabeth Rydal is also on the rebound, not from ennui, but from a dead lover. She is busy on a novel about an "orphan of the Saxophone Age." Stephen marries Elizabeth, but the relationship is marred by Elizabeth's dedication to her first love, "this wretched novel-I'm so heavy with it, I feel sometimes as if I could scarcely drag myself upstairs." Stephen not only strays into an illicit affair, but also dabbles in homosexuality. Elizabeth, who makes a cult of "understanding," forgives...