Word: cribbing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the Crimson only two points up going into the last five minutes. Bill Dennis put on one of his patented dribbling shows to freeze the ball. The over-anxious Terriers pressed too hard and left Dennis and Blodnick uncovered under the basket for easy crib shots, clinching the game in the last minute...
...hours later, another nurse's aid noticed that Baby Lyons' crib was empty. There was a frantic search of the hospital and grounds, police and dogs were called in, 2,000 townspeople searched alleys, trash cans, cisterns, dumps, swamps and dunes. One theory: Baby Lyons might have been kidnaped by an unbalanced, childless woman with a yearning for children.* The Michigan City hope: that such a person will give herself away by proudly showing off "my new baby...
...drug addict, Nancy nonetheless has an implacable loyalty to children. Better a dead child than a neglected or abandoned one, she feels. When Temple gets ready to snatch up her six-month-old daughter and run off with Pete, she finds the infant smothered to death in its crib. This brings Temple, screaming, to her senses, and Nancy, serene, to the gallows...
...within a few hours the Academy's troubles, like most human difficulty, began to seem less one-sided. The Academy named no names, but some of the 90 identified themselves to newsmen. It quickly became apparent that the temptation to crib for exams had been intensified by the Army's emphasis on football...
...easygoing giants. At Gargantua's birth (from his mother's left ear), 17,913 cows were required for his feeding. Pantagruel, his son, needed only 4,600 cows, but he was so vigorous that he ate one of the cows, and had to be bound in his crib with the chain later used for young Lucifer when he had the colic. When Pantagruel goes to Paris, he meets Panurge, a gay dog who knows 63 ways to make money and 214 to spend...