Word: sank
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Basketball Association game at Hershey, Pa., the Philadelphia Warriors' towering Wilt the Stilt Chamberlain had a hot night in chocolateville. He dumped in 31 points in one quarter and 59 in a half. With teammates feeding the ball at every chance, the 7-ft. 1-in. center, overall sank 36 baskets in 63 tries, added 28 points at the foul line. His game-end total of 100 points was an N.B.A. record, and so was the 169-147 score by which the Warriors...
...production of Giselle at London's Covent Garden, Dame Margot Fonteyn plucked a single long-stemmed red rose from one of her many bouquets and with a deep curtsy presented it to her young partner-ex-Kirov Ballet Danseur Rudolf Nureev. The young Russian lowered his eyes, sank to his knees and kissed the assoluta's hand. The audience exploded in an ovation that lasted through 23 curtain calls...
...Socialist politics, rose to become Minister of Economic Warfare in Winston Churchill's World War II coalition government and Chancellor of the Exchequer in Clement Attlee's postwar Labor government, but in 1947 blasted his career by indiscreetly leaking his budget proposals to a reporter friend, thereafter sank ever deeper into political obscurity until Queen Elizabeth appointed him a life peer in 1960; of a stroke; in London...
Harvard scored early with two field goals and a free throw, and then Bill Haarlow, Tiger forward, sank seven straight points and his team was on top, 8 to 5, at 5:52. After a book shot by Bill Danner of the Crimson, Princeton netted three straight from the floor...
...Quakers took a 15-point lead midway in the first half, and had little difficulty from then on. Bob Purdy, with 23 points, and Ray Caraso, with 22, led the Penn offense. Purdy sank 10 of 13 field goal attempts, and Caraso...