Word: slower
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strategy of the "fast break," in which players pick off opponents' shots from the backboard and streak for the other basket without waiting to organize a formal, downcourt play in advance. Sometimes, when opponents are expecting the fast break, Rossini crosses them up by reverting to conventional, and slower, tactics...
Against Cornell, No. 2 in the Eastern League, Columbia switched to the slower game. It worked well enough. Though Cornell led for much of the game, the Lions turned on the heat to shoot ten goals in 2½ minutes at one point, another eight goals in the last two minutes, to win with points to spare...
...somewhat slower than the F-86 Sabre (TIME, Jan. 1), but has a longer range, and hence a longer combat time...
...should be worth far more than the price of admission (free) when the two teams meet early next month to see these runners start the final relay leg close together. Unfortunately, the overall Eagle time was nearly five seconds slower than Harvard's. The two men will probably meet in the 600, but Howe hasn't a chance in the longer distance of hokling the pace that electrified 11,367 Garden fans...
...merits-and faithful droves of customers. It is a lucky author who can straddle the two fields without coming a cropper. In Author Thomas Bertram Costain's case, a firm hand with historical fiction (The Black Rose, The Moneyman) has been no guarantee of success with the gentler, slower-moving Gay Nineties period piece...