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Word: gloving (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...netminder slid on his side to the left. Armstrong flipped a backhander at the open net. The Clarkson sticks went up, the Harvard fans' heads went down. But the red light didn't go on. Lau waited a moment for the whistle to stop play, and calmly opened his glove to reveal the puck...

Author: By Mike Bass, | Title: ...While Iceman Fall in Final Seconds | 2/2/1981 | See Source »

...trajectory, watch the ball go all the way to its destination, without the distraction of a change of cameras for a close-up of the play at the plate. So Fred Lynn's throw sailed home, seemed to hesitate at its apogee, and landed in Carlton Fisk's fat glove about a foot above the plate. The Detroit baserunner--whoever he was--never had a chance...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: A Stillness in Centerfield | 1/26/1981 | See Source »

...sight of the puck for a few moments, unsure whether he had it. When he saw that he did, he looked to the roof of Bright Center as if to express his thanks. But last night Bob Gaudet didn't need any divine help. All he needed was a glove and a stick...

Author: By Mike Bass, | Title: A Gaudy Encore | 12/17/1980 | See Source »

...though, the Czech authorities showed they were onto something when they bridled at Kundera's latest work. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is deeply and impressively subversive, in more ways than one. Kundera not only raps the iron knuckles of totalitarianism; he coolly unravels the velvet glove of liberalism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Broken Circles | 12/15/1980 | See Source »

...shot he didn't stop was breathless, shorthanded effort by Greg Olson that knotted the game, 2-2, four minutes into the stanza. Outrunning the puck just past center ice, the sophomore took it all the way past a pair of defensemen and beat McCarthy to the glove side for his fifth goal...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: ...While Late Iceman Surge Fails Against Brown | 12/15/1980 | See Source »

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