Word: lead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...team opened and closed fast. It piled up an early three goal lead in the first 12 minutes with a set of three pass plays, one from Myles Huntington to Dave Abbot, another from Bill Garrity to Joe Kittredge, and the third from Huntington to Abbot again...
...familiar materials. When a henchman gets out of line, Stark's actions recall a dozen gangster movies: backed by a tiny, shifty-faced gunman, he props his feet on the table, snarls from the side of his mouth and turns his victim into quaking jelly; filled with lead from an assassin's revolver, Stark babbles improbable curtain lines that too carefully-dear up any audience doubt as to his power-mad aims...
Arguing for a "sort of mixed economy or democratic socialism," the Rev. Dr. Niebuhr asserted that all extensions of government power do not lead to tyranny. "Some forms of monopoly power ought to be nationalized," he added, stating that, "Britain, with its nationalization, is at least as great a democracy...
Tufts got away to a four-point lead with two baskets early in the game, but Harvard took the lead in the middle of the first period. After that, the game was never close, the Crimson expanding a five-point half-time lead into a runaway in the closing minutes...
Tufts was not a real test of this team's abilities. We have not seen yet whether it can come from behind to how it will play when not in the lead. Nevertheless, Shepard has won what he called the most important game on his schedule, and his men have shown sufficient evidence that they will be able to improve as the competition does...