Word: balled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Since 1858. Having steamed up Minneapolis, Humphrey was ready to take on the whole state. Minnesota's incumbent Senator, Republican Joe Ball, was up for reelection, and a tempting thought crossed Humphrey's mind. He considered it well, then spat on his hands. After all, old William Green had indulgently introduced him as "the next Senator from Minnesota" at a recent A.F.L. convention. The fact that Minnesota had not elected a Democrat to the Senate for 90 years discouraged him not at all. That fall he drove 31,000 miles through the Minnesota birch lands, mountains and lake...
...somebody's little brother tagging after the big boys. Standing an even 6 ft., the Philadelphia War rior's guard barely comes to the chins of some of the heron-legged stars of the National Basketball Association. But when Guy Rodgers gets his gifted hands on the ball, the game belongs...
...Ways. The rangy (6 ft. 8 in., 220 lbs.) forward with shock of wavy black hair held the ball lightly in his two ham-sized hands, then sent a set shot swishing through the hoop 28 ft. away. With that, Dolph Schayes, 31, of the Syracuse Nats last week became the first man in the history of the National Basketball Association to score 15,000 points. Before the game was over, he had raised his total to 15,013 as his team beat the Boston Celtics...
...mean, don't wear tails or anything like that, but let them know you belong. Once, I actually bought tickets to a dance (it wasn't really society) and then they wouldn't allow me, as the phrase goes, to make the scene. It was the Guard's Ball and you were supposed to be in costume. But I was wearing a brown striped suit with a black arm band. I was going to tell the lady that I had been at Versailles and now was dispatched to accompany President Wilson's casket. My date, I fancied, was German...
...team's top star is cloud-capped (6 ft. 10 in., 210 Ibs.) Darrall Imhoff, who averages only 11.8 points per game. Says Imhoff: "Sure, I like making buckets, but I really swell up when I block a shot. If you bat the ball down a guy's throat on his favorite shot, he's going to choke up a little. And he just might not try that shot again...