Word: backhanded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Capitalizing on a slight Crimson letdown, the Colby hockey team scored two key goals in the second period and went on to win Saturday's game, 4 to 2. Harvard's point came on a blue-line shot by Mike Graney and a 15-foot backhand by wing Stew Forbes...
...seven years younger than Gonzales, never seems to tire on the court. More important, he is beginning to match Gonzales' ferocious concentration. When his thinking is cool and his strokes are hot, Hoad can play an overwhelming brand of tennis. Flatfooted, he can hit a backhand with a flick of his powerful wrist with so much top spin that the ball seems to zoom off the turf like a maddened hornet...
...confidence, and except for a few personal feuds, notably with Walter Winchell and Bennett Cerf, never spits venom in his column. The gentle and often limp anecdotes of his syndicated "The Lyons Den" (106 newspapers) picture the great as playing a perpetual game of conversational pattyball, in which the backhand blast is taboo, and the score is always love-love. "So many people use print to tyrannize," says Drama Critic John Mason Brown. "Lyons just wants to inhale the world...
Dave Bohn's stiff neck deprived the Crimson of a few goals they might otherwise have received. Bohn, high scorer on the varsity, was unable to make backhand shots or turn his head quickly to see the ball...
Weld playing the top position for the first time this year, came from behind to beat Cuban Davis Cupper Raul Karman, 3-6, 6-2, 6-4. Karman, whose beautiful crosscourt backhand returns gave Weld a lot of trouble in the opening games, let up just a bit after winning the first set, and that was all the Crimson captain needed. The Tech star was unable to regain his touch, while Weld, who had started slowly grew stronger and stronger. In the final set, he broke Karman's service at love in the sixth game to lead...