Word: scoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Canada, which had only one sure string to its Olympic bow, had to wait eight days to score a point. Then Glamor Girl Barbara Ann Scott (TIME, Feb. 2), with grace and precision, outshone 24 competitors to win the women's Olympic figure-skating championship. Her victory was so big an event in Canada that Prime Minister Mackenzie King personally wired her congratulations, and announced his action, amid cheers, in Ottawa's House of Commons. Final winners: Sweden (with 82 points), followed by Switzerland...
...coach of the Oklahoma Aggies, is much too sly to be stampeded into using newfangled methods. When he takes his players to the big city, they play horse& -buggy basketball. There is no furious running or frantic shooting. Calmly and deliberately, they throttle the game down ; the Aggies seldom score many points and allow the opposition even fewer. Other coaches call it "slow death...
...dream about it. Iba's first rule: "Never shoot unless you have the percentages with you that the shot will be good." There is only one ball in a basketball game, he likes to say, and as long as you have it the other team can't score...
Epee-wielders Chip Arp, John Ager, and Giles Constable turned in the only winning record of the match for the Crimson, cutting their three opponents by a score of 51/2 to 31/2...
...score 4 to 2 Nassau, and the Tigers well ahead in the final three matches, Crimson squadmen Jim McKittrick, Hugh Foster, and Adam Foster eked out close victories to give the team its sixth win in seven starts...