Word: backhanders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...winning point, in which Vigna kept Staley glued to the baseline for eight exchanges before chopping a short backhand out of Staley's reach, epitomized Vigna's deft strategy. Her frighteningly consistent backcourt play was complemented by a strong serve...
Schulman relies on a strong backhand and sneaky passing shot rather than Vigna type consistency Schulman's timing faltered in the first set, but she warmed up in the second, claiming the tie breaker with a brilliant melange of drop shorts and volleying...
...vote against Reagan in any case, a Mondale candidacy might bring more of them to the polls than a Glenn campaign would. Wirthlin's talk, however, seems at least partly designed to guard against Republican overconfidence and avoid having the White House give Glenn's candidacy a backhand boost...
...Left) ELIZABETH EVANS savors a backhand return. The women's tennis team lost only one league match en route to the Ivy championship...
...expected unease. While making most of the easier strokes, be still seemed a bit off in his timing with some of the shorter range volleys. Just missing several close shots. After moving to a 5-2 lead in the first set, Beren took advantage of his opponent's nonexistent backhand and hit them there as often as possible, After Barry Judge often returned into the net. Judge, however, was not depending on his backhand. He could hit well, and moved to the ball rapidly, going for some shots that seemed out of reach. Beren began to fall behind...