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Madhulk Posted 18 years ago
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5000. It's a powerful defense. " Press in the first is a verb, in the second is a noun meaning newspapers, etc.

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5000. It's a powerful defense. Also, it's a pun mixing up the terms "full-court press" and "power of the press." Press in the first is a verb, in the second is a noun meaning newspapers, etc. 0240hrefhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_Court_PresscBasketball term
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0A "full-court press" is a defensive move in basketball, which is a game that is played on a marked area of floor called a court. In this case "press" refers to the action of pressing, or pushing. 02br
00"Press" also means a machine that prints words on paper, and by extension the business of publishing. "The press" can refer to newspapers and the people who work for them. "The
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