Word: tapped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yardlings will meet the University of New Hampshire freshmen in a preliminary to tonight's varsity contest, with the tap...
Bill was no ace on offense, but he was good enough. His teammates would purposely fire flat, fast shots that should have bounced off the backboard for sure misses, then Bill would move over, stick his big paw up like a second backboard, and tap the rebound in. The technique was so exasperating that rival coaches wrote a new "Russell rule" into the game-they widened the free-throw lane to 12 ft. so that Bill would have to stay farther out of basket-hanging range...
Although there is still a week to go before the first tournament tap-off, it is far too early to name a starting lineup-Coach Floyd Wilson may well start the same five that started in the losing effort against Middlebury Friday. In that contest, Dick Hurley and Bob Bowman were at the forwards, with Ike Canty at center and Bob Hastings and Bob Barnett at guards...
...Broady's trial, the two provided the district attorney with his most damning evidence, the newspapers with enough gossip to keep East Side telephones, from PLaza I to BUtterfield 8, buzzing for weeks. Items: ¶ Blimpish John Jacob Astor testified that in 1954 he had hired Broady to tap the phone in his Fifth Avenue home in the hope of learning some of the secrets of Gertrude Gretsch Astor, his wife at that time. Mrs. Astor, meanwhile, was watching her husband with her own private...
...Seculaire de Travail leuses. Since then, he has lived in the buckle of Paris' red belt-the dingy factory suburb named for St. Denis, when only 2,000 of 25,000 people ever go to church. Here, in a tiny, fourth-floor walk up with a cold-water tap in the back court and one toilet to 16 families, he directs the work of his 25 missionar> women in the Paris factory districts, at Lille, in the port cities Le Havre anc Toulon - as well as a 30-bed rest home for working girls in Mont d'Halluin...