Word: score
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been working for Acme since its founding 25 years ago. He now bosses 250 employees and has 125 regular U.S. clients and a European picture network. Acme, although smaller than A.P., is neck & neck with I.N.P. Like every other picture editor, Blumenfeld has tried many a trick to score a beat. He thinks his best was at the 1928 Gene Tunney-Tom Heeney heavyweight fight at Yankee Stadium. Dressed in a white intern's coat, Blumenfeld waited outside the stadium gate in an ambulance...
Chernus churns up the buying fever with a score chart posted in his sales office. Each cream-colored pin in the chart stands for a house being looked over, each red pin for a house sold-and it tells every waverer at a glance that he is wavering against time. "Our greatest sales," Chernus says, "are between 2 and 4 in the afternoon when the crowds are thickest" (and when the score chart bristles with pins...
...game ended with the score tied at 61 points. Then, in the second overtime period, with the Oilers leading by one point, somebody threw a firecracker. Thinking it was the final gun, the Oilers walked off the floor. A Kentucky player playfully grabbed the ball, and shot a basket. Then the regular gun sounded, ending the game. Hundreds of fans swarmed on to the floor, to find out what had happened. The answer was simple: Kentucky had won the game...
...Twenty miles from Sun Valley. There are more than a dozen other Silver Creeks in Idaho, and more than two score Deer Creeks...
...last hole of the tourney, he flubbed a shot from a bunker-just like a Sunday duffer. But on the next try, the ball hopped out like a trained rabbit, five feet from the pin. He canned the putt for a score of 284, enough to win his third British Open and the cheers of 10,000 spectators. The first prize was worth only $600 in cash, but a hundred times that in prestige. As a shot in the arm for British sport lovers, the value of his victory was beyond reckoning...