Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...game was simply chaos. Northeastern's Marie Usseglio hit the first half of a one-and-one to put the Huskies ahead. Curry turned the ball over and Northeastern kicked it out of bounds. The referee made the wrong call and Usseglio hit the first end again. Carle sunk two free throws to tie the score and Cosell be damned it was overtime...
...score kept the fans, bolstered by an impatient intramural crowd, waiting for the end. Karen Spencer notched a lay-up, then Peterson made good on four straight free throws for the Huskies. But Sue Field replied with one free throw, missed the second, then was fouled again and sunk the first end of the one-and-one with a rollodrome special. But this time, down with Meredith, she missed the second end and it was double overtime...
...Soviets, who are members of several conferences, have again agreed to talk about joining others on a conditional basis and have even held some off-the-record conversations. But any efforts to get them to participate may be sunk by a conflict in Washington. In 1975 the Russians bowed to U.S. pressure to enter key North Atlantic price-fixing conferences, but the Justice Department "loused up the deal," in the words of one New York shipping executive, by threatening antitrust action against the American members. Since 1916, U.S. members of shipping conferences have been exempt from antitrust laws, but Justice...
With under a minute left it looked like UMass would be clinging to a three point lead. After Banks sunk one more free throw to make it 71-66, Allen came up with a loose ball wnd raced the length of the court only to have his shot stuffed from behind by Pyatt...
While CBS was preparing its interviews, NBC was also trying valiantly to collar Sadat. But the network's man in Cairo, John Palmer, was out of the country and could not get a plane back in time for the Monday newscast. "We were sunk by a goddam jet," grumbled a producer at NBC. (The network got to Sadat only in time for the following night's broadcast.) NBC did manage a satellite conversation on Monday between Begin and Anchorman John Chancellor, taped only minutes after the Israeli had finished with Cronkite. NBC had to borrow the same hotel...