Word: handler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...graduation of Johnny Crocker, by all odds the best stick-handler and defensive forward on the squad, was a sore loss to the Crimson, but is compensated for by the return of defenseman Charlie Coulter to service. Although shaky in his first couple of starts, Coulter started to display his 1947 form against the Cadets, as he and Bill Allen were instrumental, to say the least, in breaking up the Cadet attack. But on the basis of Johnny Chase's recent displays of prowess, Harvard would not need any defensemen at all as long as this young goalie fills...
...Freight Handler ; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of the Big Shoulders...
...freight-handlers at Frankfurt Rhein-Main airport, it was just another box-a little on the heavy side, to be sure, but nothing out of the ordinary. They heaved it onto a hand-truck and dumped it in the storeroom. Shortly after midnight, strange things began to happen. A freight-handler saw the box move. Its lid lifted slowly and startled eyes glinted in the gloom. American Overseas Airlines Official William Waring investigated. "I opened the box," he told reporters later, "and saw a pair of eyes and some hair. Then she stepped out-no shirt...
Year after year, Gordon Richards was a big winner, earning up to $120,000 a season. He got extra speed out of a horse by breaking fast from the post and being a master horse-handler all the way to the finish line. Unlike U.S. jockeys, who perch crablike on a horse's withers. Richards sits his horse with longer stirrups. When he uses the whip, which is seldom, he lays it on the horse near the shoulder, as English riders do. Last week, at 43, he won his 3,261st race, and that made him officially the world...
...this set-up, of course, the quarterback is the most important operator. Odell's quarterback will fake, spin and fade directly to his rear as opposed to the more usual "T" ball-handler, who will step off to the right behind his guards and tackles...