Word: shave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lifetime?" said Adolph Rupp, Kentucky basketball coach, to Chicago's Quarterback Club last week. "Let's be more lenient toward them." Four days later the year's biggest basketball scandal exploded right in Coach Rupp's own backyard. The boys who admitted taking bribes to shave points: Alex Groza and Ralph Beard, Kentucky's 1947-49 All-America stars, and Dale Barnstable, 1949-50 captain. The place: Madison Square Garden's 1949 National Invitation Tournament. The opponent: Loyola of Chicago, a ten-point underdog, which upset Rupp's National Collegiate champions...
According to a New York Times story which did not mention Feinberg, Englisis and his brother Anthony have admitted that they paid $1000 to Groza and $500 each to Beard and another player, Dale Barnstable, to shave the point score of the game. Feinberg has made no admissions...
...come cheap. JAMMAT people figure they get a rifleman complete with pay, housing, food and all equipment for $500 a year. This compares to around $2,700 for the American doughfoot. The asker gets an allowance of about 12? a month, which he somewhat bitterly calls his tras parasi (shave money). The asker's boots and uniform look awful. The asker looks particularly bad on furlough. The army, very practically, gives him a sloppy, patched-up uniform for leave, so he won't tear up his fighting clothes. But there is a proud spirit in the Turkish army...
...French slang as the "shampoo." He ordered 25 days' confinement for the pilot of his plane, because the pilot had neglected to put the new commander's insignia on the fuselage. To a bearded copilot, De Lattre snapped: "And you've got five minutes to shave yourself clean!" Later, to an aide, the martinet confided: "I have terrible obligations. I have to abuse those I like the best. These air force men are genuine heroes, but they behave too badly...
...England is not quite so furiously competitive as it is in New York or the middle west. At least in Cambridge, a losing basketball team attracts nowhere near so much attention as a losing football, or even hockey, squad. No one bribes the Harvard quintet to lose games or "shave" points...