Word: brandisher
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Like Purdy, McNealy and Vik have been known to brandish Northland hockey sticks besides their acushnet blades. Vik made his all-City hockey team as a Swedish school boy before his career was cut short when his family moved to the Canary Islands...
Wood says she didn't brandish the stick for any cause. "I wasn't out there to prove anything." She says, however, that she is "hoping that more girls would play. I would like to play on a girls' line or maybe a girls' team." There are lots of girls teams now, she adds, noting that Dartmouth, Boston College and Boston University all have their own women's squads...
...possible poolhole is a concession by the commission that it will allow pools and small redwood "spas" to be heated "for therapeutic purposes." In the future, heated pools may have to be called natatoriums, while their owners brandish doctors' certificates attesting that they are polio victims. Other Californians may have to join pool pools...
...last rays of sunshine were fading as the Radcliffe cagers kicked off the 'Cliffe-Classics twilight twin bill at the I.A.B. yesterday, but the squad turned in its most lustrous outing of the season, burnishing Brandish...
Still Testing. The energy crisis is indirectly intensifying the arms boom. Middle East nations, flush with fast-mounting oil revenues, are gobbling up military hardware to brandish against Israel and, occasionally, each other. Iran, which fought in a brief border clash with Iraq a few weeks ago, bought $2 billion in ships, planes and missiles from the U.S. last year. Within the past few months, it has ordered $900 million worth of Grumman F-14 Tomcat fighters, and it is negotiating with McDonnell Douglas Corp. to buy 50 F-15 Eagle fighters, a model so new that...