Word: fadeaway
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...Crimson fusillade began in earnest when Irion fired through a jumper, followed by a Hooft corner fadeaway. Both then drilled home in-close field goals to make the score...
...Boneless Fadeaway. Ogdon and his pianist wife Brenda Lucas, together with their children Annabel, 9, and Richard, 5, live quietly in a town house on London's Regent's Park. There he seems the farthest thing in the world from what many consider him to be: a reincarnation of the flamboyant temperaments of bygone eras. His handshake is a boneless fadeaway. His response to a lengthy conversational thrust of a close friend is likely to range from a noncommittal "Mmmmmmm," to a rare "Very interesting." Brenda recalls that when she first met him at music school, he hardly...
After one turn around the league, only Elvin's opposition was hurting. Elbows slashing like scythes, he was collecting an average of 18 rebounds a game. Trading on his fadeaway jump shot, and a rim-rattling dunker, he recently turned in the top N.B.A. individual performance so far this season: 54 points against the Detroit Pistons. Last week, with a 147-point spree in four games, Elvin became the league's highest scorer...
...Real Fadeaway? Beyond such diplomatic considerations, there was the question of what would happen militarily if the U.S. did call off its bombers. For weeks, the Communists had been scaling down the fighting, withdrawing some 40,000 front-line troops, mostly to sanctuaries on or near the borders of Cambodia and Laos. U.S. casualties dipped to 100 killed three weeks ago, the lowest level in 14 months; two weeks ago, the dead totaled 109, the second lowest...
...Pentagon but also including Rostow and Rusk, held out in the absence of firm and far-reaching North Vietnamese concessions. Said one U.S. diplomat: "I have always thought that one of our biggest problems would be to get our own military to admit the fact of a fadeaway...