Word: backhandedness
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Then on the first pitch the Card's next time up, Curt Flood hit a screaming shot toward the wall. The fabulous Yaz, off with the bat's crack, leaped three feet off the ground, stuck up his glove and speared the ball backhanded before crashing to the ground. Even...
Francis J. McNamara, director of the HUAC, called the Councils statement a "backhanded approach to frustrate the law." Students might answer that their universities have an obligation to protect students from unwarranted intrusions into their lives.
Sir: Letter Writer Ryan's backhanded compliment to Negro athletes [Feb. 24] misses a sociological point. There has always been a hierarchy of emerging nationalities in American professional sports: the Irish in the '20s, the Italians and Jews in the '30s, the Negroes in the '50s...
It took a perfect play at 2:09 of the second period to break the stalemate of defenses and goalies. Ben Smith passed from the left corner to the point. Tom Micheletti returned the bullet pass, then Smith centered just as fast to Waldinger, who backhanded a sizzler from ten...
> In a slightly backhanded way, Henry Ford came out for Republican Robert Griffin for U.S. Senator from Michigan. Ford said that he would not vote for Democrat G. Mennen Williams even if he were running for "dogcatcher of Grosse Pointe."