Word: sank
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from Washington hurried a special housekeeping crew to clear away the winter's cobwebs from Kennedy's rambling white clapboard cottage. Across the way at Bobby's house, where Mike Pearson would sleep, roofers scampered around repairing gutters and tacking down loose shingles. Well drillers sank a dry shaft into the front lawn to take the roof runoff in case it rained. Over in the Hyannis marina four miles away, a presidential yacht, the Patrick J., bobbed at anchor, all tuned and ready for an afternoon's cruise. Baxter's Fish Market was standing anxiously...
Things began going wrong almost from the moment Gamal Abdel Nasser sailed into Algiers harbor to begin his state visit. The day he arrived, an Algerian minesweeper that had escorted Nasser's yacht sank with the loss of three crewmen. Then a pall was cast over the celebrations by the death of Algeria's Foreign Minister Mohammed Khemisti, who had been shot by a crazed assassin (see MILESTONES). On top of all that, a most unusual tornado swept across the country, killing twelve Algerians in one village. Many a superstitious Algerian peasant was convinced that the Egyptian visitor...
...alone run. I decided to gamble. Even if I fell down and died, that was better than losing." West arched a soft pass to Pivotman Rudy LaRusso. Heinsohn darted in front of LaRusso and slapped the ball away. He stumbled, somehow regained his balance, lurched down court-and sank an easy layup that put the Celtics ahead...
...Miss It! Miss It!" That brilliant steal should have taken the heart out of Los Angeles. But no. The teams traded baskets, and then, with 43 sec. left, the Lakers' Dick Barnett flipped a spectacular reverse-spin shot into the basket and was fouled in the process. Barnett sank the free throw, and Boston's lead was only a point. The next basket would tell the story. Cousy floated a jump shot toward the basket. The ball banged the rim, caromed crazily into a tangle of flailing arms. A roar went up. Laker Rookie Gene Wiley...
...Celtics margin to one point. Boston ate up time; Cousy took a jump shot from outside the key which hit the rim and bounced high into the air. LA got the crucial rebound--and lost it. Tom Heinsohn was fouled in the scuffle under the boards, and calmly sank a pair of foul shots which kept the NBA crown in its eternal home...