Word: scoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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News from Palestine sounded all the same: a score of Arabs killed here, a dozen Jews killed there. That was the day-to-day story of Palestine. Since the U.S. decided to support Palestine's partition, over a thousand Arabs, 750 Jews and 105 Britons have been killed. The U.S. reversed itself last week supposedly to stop the killing (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). But war between Jews and Arabs seemed as inevitable as before...
...under the basket, forming the apex of two triangles that kept the ball moving, the Billikens teased the Violets silly. The crowd clapped for action. Even Coach Hickey shouted: "He's open! He's open!" when Macauley had a chance to shoot but passed it up. The score was 5-5. That was the last time N.Y.U. was in the ballgame...
...time the score was 41-24, Macauley had scored as many points as the whole N.Y.U. team put together. He had also guarded and faked the shoes off N.Y.U.'s vaunted Center Adolph Schayes. N.Y.U.'s Coach Howard (Jake) Cann twice pulled Schayes out of the game, pointedly ignored him on the bench...
With five minutes to go, Coach Hickey mercifully took Macauley out of the game, two minutes later put in his scrubs. Final score: 65-52. Then the Billikens joyfully broke training with banana cream pie a la mode', went off to an all-night bowling alley for a little exercise...
Rachmaninoff put the score aside, and for three years couldn't write a note. In despair he went to Dr. A. Dahl, who day after day, while Rachmaninoff slept in an armchair, repeated hypnotically, "You will begin to write." The cure finally took...