Word: shots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mountain boys got a whopping break. A mix-up between officials gave them the ball under the Villanova hoop. Instantly, a pass flicked in to Star Center Lloyd Sharrar, who arched his 6 ft. 10 in. off the floor and took aim. Two seconds before the gun, his winning shot dropped in. The hustling Mountaineers had overtaken a 14-point lead in ten frantic minutes. Final score: West Virginia 76, Villanova...
Robertson showed them the biggest night, pro or amateur, in the history of Garden basketball. Floating through the defense of Seton Hall, the lithe, 6-ft. 4½-in. Negro from Indianapolis did everything right. He drove for layups, hooked from the foul line, jump-shot with either hand. He picked off rebounds, intercepted passes, set up teammates. When the Big O was done, Cincinnati had drubbed Seton Hall, 118-54, and the new boy in town had 56 points, a Garden record...
...flight," burbled a story in the New York Post, "the space passenger lost all sense of up and down." So. it seemed, had the Post as well as hundreds of other free-world newspapers that blasted off last week with an Associated Press report that Russia had shot a manned missile into space. For, despite such hedged headlines as the New York Daily News's REDS SAY ROCKET MAN ROSE 186 MI., it was palpably clear from the start that 1) the Reds had said no such thing, and 2) the coming of the Sputnik has infected even seasoned...
...deadlines neared for U.S. morning papers, A.P. aimed even higher, wider and wilder. Said its night lead, still without any confirmation: "Soviet Russia has shot a man-carrying rocket 186 miles into the air and the man parachuted safely back to earth, reliable sources said tonight." The A.P. noted in the third paragraph that there had been "no official announcement whatever," but added: "The official silence-in view of the rumors sweeping Moscow-led to some speculation that ... the manned rocket experiment may not have been a total success...
...from the sands of Florida's Cape Canaveral last week shot the Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile with fiery blast and awesome roar. It climbed majestically into a layer of low-hanging clouds, disappeared to the southeast, and a few minutes later plummeted into the ocean 600 miles away-as planned...