Word: backhanded
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Wilson, Harvard’s third baseman-cum-closer, meanwhile, unveiled his pitching arm at the hot corner, picking a tricky groundball with a nifty backhand before firing it to first for the third out of the inning...
...actor--one of Washington's shrewdest power brokers. He plays politics just as he plays his favorite sport, tennis, in which he is known on occasion to switch his racquet from his right hand to his left in the middle of a point to avoid using his weaker backhand. So it was that during the 1990s the onetime adviser to Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan joined the deficit hawks in Bill Clinton's Administration to support raising taxes, only to bless, however obliquely, President Bush's 2001 cuts in the wake of projected surpluses...
...couldn’t say no to the Cape. So standing deep in the infield grass, he’d pray the guy from Florida State or Texas digging into the dirt of that batter’s box didn’t hit a ball to his backhand, because the long throw from the hole just hurt too much...
...period, springing from the penalty box at 10:19 just in time to reach a clearing effort from the Crimson zone as he passed the Colgate blue line. Reversing the strategy that would net his heroic tally, Du tested Silverthorn glove side, following a well-executed deke with a backhand effort that was turned away only by a full-extension pad save...
...made a really nice save on me,” Du said. “I went with my backhand, so this time I figured I’d go to my forehand. And thankfully, it worked...