Word: deked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Stuff thumps the heart of a traditionalist. The organizing principle of the book is an old-fashioned fascination with, and admiration for, the test pilots and fighter jocks of the U.S.'s first astronaut team: Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard and Deke Slayton. In addition, the book has a superhero, Chuck Yeager, a World War II combat veteran who broke the sound barrier in 1947 and rewrote aviation history in experimental rocket-powered planes of the '50s and early...
Anders Carlsson came through two minutes later to make it 4-2, and then Brugman's second, a pretty breakaway deke job, gave Yale its biggest lead and waved "goodbye" to those who didn't know what to feel...
Colgate's Dave Fridgen narrowed the gap to three with a dazzling double deke, but the icemen showed resiliency as Murray registered his second marker to restore the four-goal margin...
...icemen tallied once more in the final period, when Murray fed Purdy from his own blue line perfectly with a pass that traveled through two lines and a pair of Vermont defenders. Purdy was left all alone to deke the hapless Frost and make...
...stopped the ever-effective Koch on breakaways twice, the second coming in the middle of the third period, when the Vermont forward's deke-to-the-backhand maneuver could not find its way past the prone-positioned Hynes...