Word: backhanded
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...second. With the score tied 13-13 in the third, he mused loudly, "What shall I do?", then uncorked a smashing serve for an ace and went on to win. In the last game, Vic caught his weary opponent leaning the wrong way with two successive backhand drop shots, ran out the match 15-13. "Beautiful game, Victor," conceded Howe, as both exhausted players sagged against the wall. Up in the gallery, Niederhoffer's mother, onetime ladies' paddle-tennis champion at Brooklyn's Brighton Beach Bath Club, squealed with delight...
While Marr and Duer were giving Princeton a quick two-match bulge, undefeated Crimson sophomore Rick Sterne was taming Tom Gilbert's powerful backhand in the number three match...
...sons in complete obscurity. She took the fever of the '20s with her. Throughout the next three decades she was in and out of sanatoriums, continually racked with insomnia, often unable to speak coherently or recognize old friends. Every Christmas she wrote to Louella Parsons in a shaky backhand scrawl, "Do you remember...
...crucial one. The scrappy Gay slowly pulled away until he had a commanding 12-7 lead. Morris, starting to concentrate on power strokes, fought back to 12-11. Gay won the next point on a corner drop, but his opponent could not be stopped now. A blazing crosscourt backhand and a volley down the line made the score 13-13. Five straight points by Morris then gave him the game...
...N.H.L.'s fastest skater (a Canadian research institute clocked him at 28.3 m.p.h. on a typical dash down the ice), and its hardest shooter: his left-handed slap shot zips toward the goal at 118 m.p.h.-19 m.p.h. faster than the fastest measured pitch in baseball. Even his backhand tops 90 m.p.h. "Stopping one of Hull's shots on the pads is like being slugged by a sledge hammer," says Toronto Goalie Johnny Bower, and when New York's Jacques Plante tried to block one of Hull's slap shots with his gloved hand, it numbed...