Word: backhanded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson struck back three minutes laterwith Collins' close-quarter genius on fulldisplay. The co-captain broke through the defense,nestled the ball in the curve of the stick, andfound the room to sling a hard, backhand shot pastDartmouth keeper Brittany D'Augustine...
...know the difference between an Eastern and a Western backhand? How about a pulsus bisferiens and a pulsus paradoxus? Have you ever considered relating an Eastern backhand to a pulsus paradoxus, and then using that relationship as a metaphor for the complexities of human existence? "Why would you want to" might be the more pertinent question, but for Abraham Verghese, such metaphors tell his story...
...captain Judy Collins continued the assault, tallying the first of her two goals at the 25:17 mark in spectacular fashion. Denied a forehand shot, she reverse swept the ball to her backhand in traffic, an astonishing move on such a soggy field, then smoked a backhand shot past Cornell keeper Kristi Bullard...
After Zimmerman broke the tie with a backhand shot, the lead was once again given away by another ejection as the Engineers took advantage of the defensive lapse to tie the score...
Seven minutes later, the deja vu became even more intense when Providence's Jessica Tabb stormed down the right wing. Bearing down on Harvard netminder Jen Bowdoin (29 saves), Tabb cut to her lift, switched to the backhand and scooted her team's third goal of the game into the open...