Word: balled
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...world situation being what it is, Maryland's lame-duck Senator Millard R. Tydings announced, the family had decided to cancel the elaborate "coming-of-age ball" in Washington's Mayflower Hotel for their pretty, blonde, 18-year-old daughter Eleanor. Both parents and grandparents, onetime Ambassador and Mrs. Joseph E. Davies, decided it would be better to substitute "a small and simple" dance at the Chevy Chase Club "in keeping with the austerity of the times...
When Pravda, the loud-yapping signal-caller of Communist journalism, recently blasted U.S. college football as the brutal product of predatory capitalists, i.e., college trustees, Sportwriter Nat Low of Los Angeles' Communist People's World took the handoff and scampered down the field with the ball...
Same as Chemistry. Time after time, Georgia-born Bill Spivey grabbed off Kansas passes intended for Lovellette. Once he stole the ball right out of the Kansan's hands, dribbled the length of the floor to score. By half time, Spivey had 14 points to Lovellette's four and Kentucky led Kansas 28-12. The baffled Lovellette fouled out in the third quarter, after being held to ten points by Spivey's glue-like guarding. Spivey himself had scored 22 points (high for the game). When Lovellette went out, Rupp took out Spivey too ("We wanted their...
Nine Plays. Rupp relies not only on a lot of shooting (10-15% more than the average team), but constantly demands "speed and a lot of ball handling." Rupp denies that Kentucky's rapid-fire shooting produces razzle-dazzle basketball. "With our nine basic plays," claims Rupp, "we are probably the most definite [i.e., deliberately patterned] team in the country...
During World War II, the U.S. Armed Forces radio piped overseas such native noises as Lana Turner's sigh, an umpire shouting "Play Ball!" at Ebbets Field, the whimper of a puppy. Last week, from Gibraltar to Korea, British soldiers & sailors were also hearing the sounds of home. A BBC overseas program called You Asked for It carried such nostalgic sounds as the chime of Southampton's Civic Center clock striking 8, the rumble of the Welsh express going through the Severn tunnel, the Dunstable Salvation Army band blowing itself "pink in the face beside the traffic lights...