Word: shooting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tall boys had run away with basketball. When they could simply dunk the ball into a 10-ft.-high basket, what chance did a little fellow have, who had to shoot? Basketball's No. 1 thinker, Coach Forrest C. ("Phog") Allen of the University of Kansas, who had been turning the matter over in his mind for ten years, last week had a chance to try his remedy. The remedy: raise the baskets...
...Mexico School of Mines team played against a team of comparative shorties (average: 5 ft. 11 in.), Drury College from Missouri. The higher hoops didn't work out quite the way Phog Allen expected. Sure enough, the big boys could dunk no more and had to shoot-but the little fellows had to shoot even higher. The biggies won easily. Chief troublemaker was basketball's tallest player, New Mexico's 7 ft. 1 in. Elmore Morgenthaler, who calmly tossed 41 points...
...wife, Pyari, some women's dresses to hem. Said Pyari: "Isn't it enough that you should make your house a byword . . . must [you] bring your whore's clothes here? . . . Take back your filth!" Gopal Singh slapped her face. Screamed Pyari: "Why don't you shoot me? . . ." Half an hour later, Pyari was dead. Said Gopal's father: "We must say she died of cholera." Said Gopal: "She must be burned at once. ... It must be too late for a post-mortem." That evening, Pyari's body was burned on a pyre beside...
...problem was whether, with so many, they would get the schooling they were entitled to. Rochester University's able President Alan Valentine warned that if enrollments continue to shoot up, "the quality of our education will be pulled down...
...Melita. Said Nick: "The man in here-you can't help but like Him." Said Melita, fingering the perfume bottles: "I'm all out of Intoxication." She also made Nick massage her big toe. At last Nick slipped a gun in his pocket and went out to shoot Melita's lover. But the lover was not at home. When Nick realized how miraculously a murder had been avoided, he ran to the nearest church to give thanks. But the church was locked "for the guys that get in trouble after the sun goes down." Said Nick...