Word: backhand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...music to your cars, drop in at 67a Mt. Auburn Street almost any time, and pull up a cracker box. When not on the courts, coaches Jack Barnaby and Dick Dorson spend most of their time in the shop, discussing strategy with their players or demonstrating a new slice backhand--to the imminent danger of life, limb, and the surrounding show-cases. Squad lists and tournament draw cards litter the room, for this is the indoor center of Harvard's tennis and squash activity...
...made both by Mrs. Roosevelt and by Alf M. Landon) that the U. S. give Britain cash outright. Proud Britons wouldn't welcome gifts, he said. Then he dismissed, as narrow-minded and banal, suggestions to change the Johnson & Neutrality Acts, then lend Britain money. After a brief backhand smash at people who think in traditional terms about finances, he outlined his plan: the U. S. will pay for all future British arms orders, will lease or mortgage war materials to Britain under a "gentlemen's agreement" whereby the British will repay in kind after...
...Budge. He got early pointers from Don's brother, Lloyd; later became a protégé of George Hudson, coach at the famed Berkeley Tennis Club. Two years ago Hudson's boy attracted the attention of the U. S. Davis Cup Committee. His thunderbolt service, devastating backhand and deadly overhead game-fully as potent as the play Don Budge displayed on his first trip East-made him look like a successor to Budge...
...report of the rush of volunteers to Finland past the French censor, the Paris bureau of the New York Times executed a neat journalistic backhand...