Word: scorings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quatrains which follow are all missing one scintillating line. Identify the song, the singer, and cite the missing line. The title and the singer are each worth one point and the missing line is worth two. Total possible score: 396 points, Highest scorer wins a prize beyond his or her wildest dreams...
...game was hardly super, but neither was the action as one-sided as the score seemed to show. "That Oakland is a good, well-coached team," said Green Bay Coach Vince Lombardi, after his N.F.L.-champion Packers drubbed the A.F.L.-champion Raiders 33-14 in last week's Super Bowl. Lombardi had no such kind words last year for the Kansas City team that the Packers defeated (35-10) in the first Super Bowl. Oakland was clearly a classier club. The Raiders tallied 16 first downs to Green Bay's 19 (one of which came on a penalty...
...Raiders did three times. The only interception came when Green Bay's Herb Adderley picked off a sideline pass thrown by Oakland Quarterback Daryle Lamonica and scampered 60 yds. for a touchdown. Oakland Safetyman Rodger Bird was responsible for a swing of perhaps 17 points in the score: he fumbled a punt and got beaten twice on passes...
...college basketball game, turned out to see U.C.L.A. take on the University of Houston in the best game of the season. When it began, U.C.L.A., undefeated in 47 straight games, ranked first in the nation; Houston, unbeaten in 17 straight, was second. At the final buzzer, with the score Houston 71, U.C.L.A 69, the ranking was reversed...
...more of the same-much more. Granted, Alcindor was not at his best: he had injured an eye in a game the week before, and his shooting percentage from the field-four out of 18-was unbelievably low. But Hayes had the range. In the first half alone he scored 29 points (out of his team's 46), with delicate jump shots and driving, twisting lay-ups. Only the long-distance accuracy of U.C.L.A.'s Lucius Allen, who scored 16 in the first half and 25 in all, kept the Bruins in the game. At half time...