Word: rimming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eight Puritans contributed to the Deacon thrashing which was close until a third quarter Winthrop scoring spree swamped their northern neighbors. Ledger Free was the victor's high scorer but his efforts were closely followed by his teammates, most of whom dented the rim at least once...
Voice from the Widely Bimps. When he isn't exploding all over the basketball court, Frank Keaney is a good-natured Irishman who saves old glassware as a hobby. In practice, one of his tricks is to bolt a steel rim inside the baskets, reducing their size from 18 to 15 inches; it made the basket-shooting in the actual game seem easier. While his players romp on the court, Keaney, a Phi Beta Kappa, calls to them in his own curious language, compounded of corny phrases he has coined himself, mixed with Latin or Latin-sounding words. Samples...
...Dailey's two-pointer under the basket and high-scorer John Rockwell's foul shot with slightly more than a minute to play brought the Crimson to 45, but the crowd came to its feet in vain with five seconds remaining as Rockwell's one-hander slithered off the rim and the horn sounded...
Your review of the French-dialogued, made-in-Italy Carmen [TIME, Dec. 2] mentions "Escamillo's smugglers." Unless this particular movie scrambles Mérimée, Bizet and all traditional Carmens, you must be scrambling the Gypsy Girl's boy friends. "Garcia's smugglers" maybe, or even "Don Josè's smugglers," but surely Escamillo still sticks to his bull ring...
...them in Columbia, but there was no safety there-the white folks were still on edge, remembering the ugly outbreak in Mink Slide last spring (TIME, March 11). So the Negroes were taken to safe haven in Nashville. Many of the people of the Bluegrass Bowl and the Highland Rim felt better because a lynching had been averted...