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Word: backhanded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...penetrating backhand allowed him to dictate from the baseline, as he won the first match, 6-0, 6-1. But the number one player from Duke turned it around on him in the next round, winning with ease...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tennis Teams Win; Season Starts Well | 10/1/1996 | See Source »

...12th century Emperor Hui Tsung's script, with its flicking exactness of stroke; at the other, the blithely spontaneous notation of the 8th century Zen Buddhist monk Huai-su, who liked to work when drunk on rice wine. And somewhere in between is the long-arm forehand and backhand of the 16th century scholar-artist Chu Yun-ming, whose fierce cursive brush writing came to be revered as an example of moral probity in itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: TREASURES OF THE EMPIRE | 4/29/1996 | See Source »

...attacked a lot, ran around my backhand and came to net as much as possible," Majmudar said...

Author: By Maggie Jacobberger, | Title: Majmudar Shines At Harvard Invite | 2/13/1996 | See Source »

JESSE HELMS 97 Senators backhand his gay bashing and renew funding for AIDS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Winners & Losers: Aug. 7, 1995 | 8/7/1995 | See Source »

...kind of like Jimmy Connors' sparring partner. I guess I must be pretty good or else he wouldn't play with me but I can't exactly take credit for his backhand," Eddison said...

Author: By Andrew L. Wright, | Title: Cuomo Speechwriter Speaks on Speeches | 7/11/1995 | See Source »

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