Word: backhand
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Harvard's only tally of the contest came with 2:03 left in the middle stanza. Late-period Crimson pressure resulted in a crowd scene in front of the Boston College cage, where Billy Nolen finally buzzed a backhand by sophomore netminder Paul Skidmore to make it a 2-1 ballgame...
...magic team of Siegfried and Roy briskly turning lions, tigers and panthers into each other and thin air. The evening's worst-called play featured Nonstop Composer Paul Anka accompanying Tennis Star Jimmy Connors in his crooning debut. Jimmy's voice cannot compete with his two-fisted backhand; he had to be helped by a taped track. Howard fatuously added, "This was a great magical moment in musical history...
...motion picture industry's Jack Valenti moved to the tennis courts. He perfected something he called "a top-spin backhand," and not even Jaws gave him the thrill he got from beating Presidential Contenders Birch Bayh and Lloyd Bentsen. It may be an indication of political things to come. One of the world's famous lawyers, Edward Bennett Williams, called the unusual calm "a return to abnormality." His view is that the bizarre has become the norm and such letdowns as we are now experiencing will continue to be the unusual...
...only "frolicking" Mr. Talese did here was on the tennis court, where he exhibited a strong backhand...
...Frisbee throw best known to run-of-the-backyard players-holding the plastic disk parallel to the ground and flipping it forward with a backhand motion-is of limited use in Ultimate Frisbee. It is too easily blocked. Ultimate stars have developed a special repertory of hard-to-stop releases. Among them...