Search Details

Word: left-hand (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...straight stick and a fast play the shot will slide off my stick like a golfer's slice. But with the curved stick I can hold the puck a second longer, have better control when I fake the goalie, and then whip it into the corner with the left-hand spin and know it won't trail off." Other players say that the sickle stick helps them to scoop the puck off the boards and, by cradling it inside the curve, shield it from the goalie's vision. This new-found control, which is roughly similar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hockey: Day of the Banana Stick | 2/21/1969 | See Source »

...notwithstanding. I wished for vastly superior pronunciation from everyone concerned. The highlight of the Mozart was the translucent Laudate Pueri in which the choral balances were exact in well-intoned and excellently phrased singing. The chamber orchestra played quite vigorously even if the conductor, Iva Dee Hiatt, displaying no left-hand technique, threw them to their own devices with her embarrassing Signal Corps gestures...

Author: By Chris Rochester, | Title: Early Music | 11/9/1968 | See Source »

...unable to capitalize. John Burnett, B.C.'s netminder, was almost impenetrable as he turned away 40 shots. The lone Crimson tally came at 5:35 of the first period. Joe Cavanagh, the Yardling's top scorer, drilled a pass from fellow forward Steve Owen into the upper left-hand corner of the Eagle nets past the out-positioned Burnett...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: J.V. Six Roll, Yardmen Fall | 1/8/1968 | See Source »

Parrot meanwhile, has exchanged places with fellow first-line wing Bob Fred Both are left-hand shots, but Weiland now feels that parrot will be the better of the two on the right because of his buck handling meneverability...

Author: By Robert P. Marshall jr., | Title: Skaters Downed Twice in St. Paul | 1/4/1968 | See Source »

...Goya. Last June, Madrid's Prado Museum decided to have The Family of Charles IV cleaned and rebacked with a fresh canvas. When the first layer of grime was removed the Prado's assistant director, Xavier de Salas, made a startling discovery. In the upper left-hand corner, a dark picture hanging on the palace wall turned out to depict a nude man and two seminude women. The man is caressing one woman's thighs, and his face, though youthful, dark and gaunt with the strain of the bacchanal, is, says De Salas, "Goya, without any doubt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Painting: A Share in the Bacchanal | 12/22/1967 | See Source »

Previous | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | Next