Word: winningly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...College basketball's two major tournaments were won by the underdogs. At New York's Madison Square Garden, sharpshooting St. John's of Brooklyn beat top-seeded Bradley 76-71, in overtime, to win the National Invitation Tournament. In Louisville's Freedom Hall, California's underrated Golden Bears slowed West Virginia's fast break, squeezed out a 71-70 upset victory in the N.C.A.A. championship finals...
Stanley, though probably unable to win the 200, could take third with a strong showing. Pitted against Frank Modine of Michigan State and Si Hopkins of Michigan (both of whom have done 2:22.7), Stanley's main competition for third should come from Gordon Collett of Oklahoma. In the 100, he will have to beat Navy's Bob Taft, who won the Easterns, plus arch-rival Joe Koletsky of Yale, who lost to Stanley last week at New Haven...
...fans clowns, once used a midget as lead-off batter (he drew a base on balls), even let spectators manage the team for several games by flashing "yes" and "no" cards to questions of strategy. Yet the carnival atmosphere was no substitute for success. The Browns did not win, and Veeck tried to get the franchise transferred to Minneapolis or Baltimore, even considered Los Angeles. When American League club owners, nettled by his brashness, blocked every move, all he could do was quit. Says he: "I didn't leave baseball gracefully. I was evicted...
Astrue started playing NBC's Tic Tac Dough last November. When he started to win, he worked out a deal with his superiors at New Jersey's McGuire Air Force Base. He had 70 days of accumulated leave; why not let him go to Manhattan on alternate weeks and tape his appearances in advance? That way Astrue could seem to the audience to be competing steadily, week after week, five days a week. Permission was granted...
...stake in the electric-and other-cases are decisions crucial not only to free trade. If the protectionists win, the "national security" dodge will create many new problems for all free enterprise-as the quotas on oil imports show. The U.S. Government warned that it will police oil prices; if prices rise beyond levels set by OCDM, the U.S. will let in more imports. Further victories by the protectionists could well bring price controls on many another industry and take the U.S. a long step toward peacetime price controls for the whole economy...