Word: backhanded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Martins then sealed BU's fate with ahighlight-material goal at the 9:05 mark. Insteadof passing the puck to a wide-open Cory Gustafson,Martins took the puck from the right side of theTerrier net, deked out a BU defender, switchedhands and lifted a backhand shot over McKersie tomake the score...
Farrell's 17th goal of the year, a top-shelf backhand move created by senior Chris Baird, gives the third-ranked Crimson (12-3-2 overall, 10-2-2 ECAC) some much-needed momentum going into Monday nights' Beanpot showdown with number-two Boston University (5-2 winners over UMass-Lowell last night...
What sets her well apart from the ruck of writers is the lash and sting of her language. She can summon ferocity without effort, can smilingly backhand reader or character into a tumbled heap. But she uses this violent gift in a curiously selective way. At the outset of The Shipping News, she demeans her hero, a blobby, unfocused man named Quoyle, as "a dog dressed in a man's suit for a comic photo," who possesses "a great damp loaf of a body." His faithless wife is "thin, moist, hot . . . in another time, another sex, she would have been...
...sophomore Tom Holmes' first goal of the year early in the third period, a backhand rebound off a shot by Cory Gustafson, that clinched the Crimson victory...
...when you hit someone that way, woman or dog (backhand, I meant), it's as if you're deliberately minimizing her, pushing her away, treating her as if she were a slave...