Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prisoners. Said he: "Without the hope of being able to do something for the release of prisoners of war, I would not travel to Moscow." At the same time West German papers published a letter Dibelius had written to Stalin last year protesting against the Communists' tyrannical rule in East Germany. Moscow's reaction was swift. Last week, the day before the bishop and five other German churchmen were due to leave, a wire arrived from Moscow's Bishop Nikolai: "I regret deeply to have to inform you that the Very Holy Patriarch is sick. This makes...
...varsity had finished its last pre-Newport scrimmage, and Shepard was relaxing in the I.A.B., watching the freshmen scrimmage. "The object of the rule," he said, "like all the others in the last couple of years, is to cut down the fouling...
...this is the first time that they (the National Basketball Rules Committee) have ever fooled around with the beginning and middle of the game," he continued. "We've had three scrimmages under the rule, and I can't see any difference in the number of fouls," Shepard added. "Of course, the boys haven't been playing much and they still play like it was last year--maybe by the middle of the season they'll be used to the rule, and won't foul so much...
...probably make for a high scoring game," he said. "After all, the boys can't help themselves on a lot of these fouls, and when you give the shooter two chances, he should make one. I can't tell if it's a good rule yet," Shepard said, smiling, "but if it keeps down the fouling it will...
Shepard glanced at the freshmen scrambling for a loose ball, nodded, and said, "But I'll tell you what is a good rule--the one that makes all fouls automatically two shots in the last three minutes. In our three games it cut down a lot of that last minute wrestling and turned it back to basketball. It's a good thing to cut out some of that rough stuff...