Word: tallness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tall men broke BU's back last night, as the varsity basketball team beat the Terriers, 86 to 60. It was the highest score the varsity has made in more than a year. Forward John Rockwell dropped in 24 points to lead the team, and center Ed Smith followed with...
...tall and reasonably fast Boston University quintet appears at the Blockhouse at 8:45 p.m. tonight, as Norm Shepard tries to make it two in a row. Shepard's varsity beat Tufts 67 to 56 Saturday, but he expects the Terriers to put up much more of a fight...
Smith and Rockwell will be back at their pivot posts. Smith sank 22 points in the team's debut, closely followed by Rockwell with 19; Shepard is counting on his two tall men for much of tonight's scoring. Captain Bill Prior will replace them at center...
Coach Vince Cronin's BU features a tall center, Marty Finnegan, and plays fast-break ball along Shepard's own lines. On the basis of previous work, the teams rate evenly: the Terriers easily beat MIT last Saturday, but Shepard's squad has trimmed the Engineers twice in preseason scrimmages. BU has a set-shot artist in captain Joe Sheehan, and guard Ken Rickson is also accurate from the outside...
...piece of impudence," cried tall, gimlet-eyed Lord Vansittart, 68, in Britain's House of Lords last week. Bristling with rage, the onetime (1930-38) Permanent Under Secretary of the Foreign Office told his peers how the Soviet news agency Tass ("a nest of guttersnipes") had wriggled out of a libel suit filed by Vladimir Krajina, Czech refugee and onetime resistance fighter. The Soviet Embassy had declared Tass a state organ (TIME, July 11), and a British court had no choice but to grant diplomatic immunity to Tass, which had accused Krajina of being a traitor. Krajina...