Word: backhanded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While Marr and Duer were giving Princeton a quick two-match bulge, undefeated Crimson sophomore Rick Sterne was taming Tom Gilbert's powerful backhand in the number three match...
...sons in complete obscurity. She took the fever of the '20s with her. Throughout the next three decades she was in and out of sanatoriums, continually racked with insomnia, often unable to speak coherently or recognize old friends. Every Christmas she wrote to Louella Parsons in a shaky backhand scrawl, "Do you remember...
...crucial one. The scrappy Gay slowly pulled away until he had a commanding 12-7 lead. Morris, starting to concentrate on power strokes, fought back to 12-11. Gay won the next point on a corner drop, but his opponent could not be stopped now. A blazing crosscourt backhand and a volley down the line made the score 13-13. Five straight points by Morris then gave him the game...
...N.H.L.'s fastest skater (a Canadian research institute clocked him at 28.3 m.p.h. on a typical dash down the ice), and its hardest shooter: his left-handed slap shot zips toward the goal at 118 m.p.h.-19 m.p.h. faster than the fastest measured pitch in baseball. Even his backhand tops 90 m.p.h. "Stopping one of Hull's shots on the pads is like being slugged by a sledge hammer," says Toronto Goalie Johnny Bower, and when New York's Jacques Plante tried to block one of Hull's slap shots with his gloved hand, it numbed...
Third-liners Pete Waldinger and Bobby Cowen netted the Crimson's first two goals. Waldinger drove home a long screened shot in the first period off a pass from Bob Clark. During a second-period Polar Bear penaity, Cowen netted a short backhand from a scramble in front of the Bowdoin...