Word: lobs
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...courts had wooden wall that gave a big bounce to the ball. Harvard, more accustomed to a lob game and soft touch, had to adapt to the livelier back and front walls...
...exclusively for women. It was the first attempt to equalize the purses, publicity and playing conditions long enjoyed by the men players and long denied the women. "You've heard of Women's Lib," says one of the tour's promoters. "This is Women's Lob...
...confrontation settle into rigidity. It goes like this: Police form ranks to block off a street; demonstrators (in ranks) march up the street until they are a few yards in front of the police; there is a three-minute pause on both sides; the police then advance and lob tear gas canisters; the demonstrators retreat (with cries of "Walk! Walk!"): the demonstrators gradually regroup; and then the whole process repeats itself. This exact sequence of events repeats over and over again until the sheer strength of the gas gradually drives everybody home. Few clubbing result; there are relatively few arrests...
...Terrell forced Gonzalez to run, and with this attack the Crimson senior had a distinct advantage. When Gonzalez dove to save a short lob. Terrell would follow with a deep smash that left Gonzalez a spectator...
...used to hit aces out of sheer power," he explains. "Now I hit them out of deception." Though he lost the next two sets, he began to establish a pattern: "La-ver's not a very tall fellow and I felt that if I could get my lob going when he came to the net, I could work him pretty hard and penetrate more with a passing shot." In the final two sets the steady punching began to tell. Driven back by Laver's slams at the net, Gonzalez answered with top-spin lobs that dropped inches beyond...