Word: tipoffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many of the participants in this mad rush, each UCLA home basketball contest is more than just a game--it's an event. It starts the night before the opening tipoff and extends at least a half-hour after the last second ticks off the game clock. These are the Pauley Pavillion Overnighters, and for five months every year Bruin basketball becomes their life...
Lately, however, a few extra pounds have team cramping Hall's style considerably, Kleinfelder says her charge is ineffective at her current weight, and Hall has been on the bench during the tipoff of several recent games...
...move, designed to give the Crimson a little extra ball control, didn't last long. Carrabino entered the game just 46 seconds after the opening tipoff...
...they have also hired experienced military talent to supervise their operations. The smugglers have their own intelligence, counterintelligence and reconnaissance units. Their logic is as blunt as their favorite Mac-10 submachine gun: any sizable bust by the feds must of necessity be the result of a tipoff. You find the squealer and eliminate...
Absence of socks, for example, is a clear tipoff that extra, not less, care is being taken. The habitual wearing of fine leather next to the skin necessitates an air of nonchalence whose cultivation takes a great deal of effort...