Word: flick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...life is ordered and promising--he plays tennis on Sundays on his backyard court, spends a lot of time troubleshooting on the phone ("Right, Ed, I'll check on it first thing Monday morning"), and any strange occurrences in the outside world can be quickly swept away with a flick of the wiper-washer switch on his blue-gray Volvo. Ignore for the moment that Chamberlain seems to have only recently been introduced to his family, that his wife (Olivia Hamnett) is rather oaken, and that Chamberlain, who supposedly grew up in Sydney, hasn't a trace of an accent...
Since then, it's been season after season of outstanding achievement laced with bitter disappointment. Once again, the Islanders are playing in top form, as expected; the question is whether they can keep their act together come playoff time and avoid disasters like Lanny McDonald, whose infamous overtime flick of the wrist ended New York's best season ever with a whimper...
...Salters 3 0-0 6; Flick 1 1-2 3; Jackson 1 0-0 2; Price 10 3-4 23; Smith 10 1-2 21; White 7 0-0 14; Kuhl 1 2-2 4; Willis 9 1-2 19; Reynolds 3 0-0 6; Ross 2 0-1 2; Hall 0 1-2 1; Liefsen 0 0-0 0; TOTALS...
...July was spent, or was wished it had been spent, in the center-field bleachers at Fenway Park, listening to the gentle animal roar of a bemused crowd as Rice would flick his wrists and explode another hanging curve over The Wall, or Evans would dance and whirl through space before seizing a misguided double. Nothing else seemed to matter; Mideast maneuvers and the difficulties of Dr. Peter Bourne with the Controlled Substances Act--all fell below the headlines screaming Yaz's latest heroism, bewailing Lynn's sprained pinky. And Rice continued to explode curveballs, and Evans to dance...
Langton has the requisite talent--he heads well, has a deceptively accurate flick volley, tackles well, and feeds the ball upfield coolly...