Word: face-off
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...Bobby. Just a couple of days later and across New York City, former Mayor John Lindsay, 53, went skating too. Not on thin ice, but at the Rockefeller Center Skating Rink where, with Co-Host Diahann Carroll, 39, he taped an ABC Christmas Eve special, refereed an ice-hockey face-off, then jumped into a sleigh with Diahann to sing (in Sunday churchgoer's baritone) It's Beginning To Look Like Christmas. Taking a break, Lindsay suddenly spun out on the ice and asked a member of the chorus to join him for a Dutch waltz. Said Diahann...
...Crimson came out flying in the second as Jimmy Thomas continued to play excellent, aggressive hockey which paid off in a score only 1:54 after the face-off. Thomas took a pass from Leigh Hogan and fired a backhand past the hapless Devlin...
...typical of a season opener. Harvard's freshman hockey team out-classed the Boston State junior varsity from opening face-off to final buzzer, but managed to make enough mistakes to keep the contest close, narrowly squeezing out a 4-3 victory...
...Hassan and is even willing to forego the man's traditional dowry payment to marry him. Ossman wants Bahar, not only for his own gratification but for work in his fields. Once Hassan is in jail, Ossman forces himself on Bahar. The film moves slowly towards the brothers' inevitable face-off and an abrupt, violent denoument...
Philadelphia Flyers Coach Fred Shero has a simple formula for hockey games: "If you keep the opposition on their asses," he says, "they don't score goals." Since the opening face-off of the season, the Flyers have executed that rough-and-tumble philosophy with savage enthusiasm, sending opponents sprawling across the ice at every opportunity. The tactic has worked: the Flyers finished with the second-best record in the National Hockey League and last week became the first expansion team in the league to play as a serious contender in the Stanley Cup finals...