Word: chamberlain
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...hook," a shot he devised at the age of nine and the height of 5 ft. 8 in. when all of his standard attempts had been blocked, 7-ft. 2-in. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar supplanted 7-ft. 1-in. Wilt Chamberlain last week as the National Basketball Association's most prolific scorer. Over 13 professional years, Chamberlain amassed 31,419 points, up to 100 at a time. Abdul-Jabbar, 36, is in his 15th season and showing no signs of halting. With a typical display of integrity, the Laker pivotman could not restrain himself from scoring 22 points...
...tough game, like shooting foul shots. You miss more than you make," says Wilt Chamberlain, 47, who after eleven years of retirement from pro basketball is putting on a full-court press for stardom in Conan: King of Thieves, due out this summer. In the sequel to 1982's barbaric hit, the 7-ft. 1-in. former N.B.A. champion dunks some nasty villains as the warrior Bombaata, who is on a perilous adventure with the shorter (6 ft. 2 in.) but broader Conan, portrayed again with brutish authority by Celebrity Iron Pumper Arnold Schwarzenegger, 36. Also along...
...Services Committee. He stressed that there was no middle ground between the zero option and full deployment of the 572 new American missiles called for in the December 1979 decision. He concluded his testimony with a quotation from the British statesman Samuel Hoare, reflecting ruefully on Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's "slide into surrender" to Adolf Hitler at Munich in 1938. The comparison between Chamberlain in Munich and Nitze in Geneva was no less invidious for being implicit...
Currier Assistant to the Masters Brenda Chamberlain explains that "there are hundreds of criteria we use to decide who we will accept," with "diversity" the main goal...
Acting House Master Stophen Bernardi and Senior Tutor Lee Pelton were unaware of the incident, but Margaret Chamberlain, a resident tutor, said that fire alarms went of in both the Standish and Gore portions of Winthrop. All residents were told to eat their meal at other Houses...