Word: racked
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Jack the Shot, the darling of the local rooters who packed Worcester Memorial Auditorium, was fairly cold, although he did rack up 14 points in the first half. When he finally sank one of his fabled shots after 6:35, the fans practically tore the place apart. The same spectators ignored another hometown boy, Crimson captain Bob Bowditch--with some reason, Bowditch couldn't buy a basket, but he did contribute the best defensive efforts of the night, pulling several steals and blocking his usual number of shots...
...powered-aircraft flight in Japan, where he is renowned as "the grandfather of flight." "This is my ship," said Benny Foulois proudly, perhaps recalling a memorable day-March 2, 1910-when, as an Army lieutenant, he made his first take off, first solo, first landing and, finally, managed to rack up the U.S.'s first crash of a military aircraft...
...undefeated Missouri, rugged End Danny LaRose (6ft. 4 in., 220 Ibs.) crashes into the enemy backfield like a runaway tank: "I like to rack the punter. If the fullback tries to block you by going for your legs, run over him the first time. He'll shy away after that." Following an impressive sophomore year, LaRose had a bad season as a junior ("The publicity went to my head"), has rallied this season to become a prime prospect for the pros. In Missouri's 21-8 victory over Penn State, LaRose recovered two fumbles, batted down key passes...
They were the lucky ones. When the government discovered that France was losing some of its most useful citizens, Huguenot emigration was promptly banned. Anyone caught reading the Bible, preaching or worshiping according to Protestant tenets was tortured on the rack, and hanged, or sent to the galleys. Hundreds of Protestant villages were burned to the ground. Peasants were rounded up by soldiers with small crosses on their muskets and forced to sign affidavits that they had become Roman Catholic...
...Beauty and the Beast from Ravel's Mother Goose Suite, and Denmark's Paul Jorgensen, who became an early favorite with his Victor Borge-like humor, which puzzled spectators but intrigued the judges. Wearing a perpetual wry grin, the Dane began his performance by tapping on the rack to silence not the musicians but the judges themselves. For all his humor, he was adept at dodging errors, at one point marched angrily over to an offending bass player, pointing his baton and shouting accusingly. The orchestra later rewarded him with a flawless performance of Beauty and the Beast...