Word: point
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Gary Borchard, who will have to do a big part of the Crimson's scoring if they're going to win many games this year, regained his touch with a 14-point night. Joe Deering, the speedy backcourt man, also had 14 against Holy Cross and now leads the team with 24 points...
...third alternative, Beer explained, was unilateral nuclear disarmament. Its very mention brought hisses, and the speaker had to point out, again, that neither he nor Tocsin advocates this step. When pressed, said Beer, even the unilateralists admit that their policy would likely lead to Communist control. Their usual defense is the slogan, "better red than dead...
...became, after this high point, the picture of the "bloated creditor" because of its isolation and was debt policies, he added. Despite the United States large contributions to World War II and the United Nations, he said, this degradation has now reached the point where it is "quite fashionable to find America's every wrong and minimize its good points...
Most of his listeners would agree that Snow made his point. I would question, though, his assumption that such secret politics are in any way bizarre or peculiar to our own age. It seemed to me that what he was describing--committee maneuvers, the politics of hierarchy, and "court politics"--are traditional means by which men have always arrived at decisions. His use of the phrase "court politics" to describe Lindemann's alliance with his powerful patron, Churchill, indicates how timeless and universal such politicking is. And, after the war and a decade of precarious coexistence, I don't think...
...author recalls, built the cabin and bred children and cattle there successfully until one night in 1863 he was slaughtered and scalped by Comanches. Dammed-up river water will deprive Welty's ghost of its local habitation, if not its name, and that is part of the point of Graves's book. Scrub-country legends are worth knowing, as is the country itself, its game and its rivers. So, too, is the solitude replacing the loneliness of the first night's camp, and that is disappearing from the land as surely as are the old ghosts themselves...