Word: hit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson rolled down the field several times and finally scored on a corner hit. Senior Co-Captain Char Joslin's shot on the goal bounced off the Terrier goalie's pads to sophomore Becky Gaffney. Gaffney slapped the ball into the dripping net to close out the scoring...
That, however, has changed. Yesterday afternoon, Commissioner Fay Vincent announced that Game 3 of the World Series between the San Francisco Giants and Oakland A's was postponed again due to the earthquake that hit the Bay area on Tuesday...
...energy but also unnecessarily risk "tennis elbow." His high-speed film shows that the ball is in contact with the strings for only four milliseconds and is well on its way to the net before the player even begins rolling his racquet. "Anyway," says Braden, "if the player really hit over the ball, he would drive it into his foot." To impart top spin, he explains, the player needs only to swing from low to high, bringing the face of the racquet to a vertical position as it meets the ball...
...years in advance for his half-hour individual lessons, which usually drew an appreciative nonpaying audience of local toads. He also took time to organize a class of blind children, calling out numbers to help them aim their racquets at machine-propelled balls. "Golly," says Braden, "when the kids hit the ball, I was more thrilled than they were." It was at Rolling Hills Estates, too, that he trained Tracy Austin and other young proteges...
...House panel proposes emission limits that could transform the American car. -- Donald Trump bids $7.5 billion for AMR, the parent of American Airlines. -- Boeing is hit by a strike...