Word: lob
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...number-two spot, Radcliffe's Susan Handy dropped her first two games, but proceeded to seize the next two with a series of floating lob serves and well-timed reverse corner drops. Her hard-hitting Princeton foe, Emily Goodfellow, squeezed by to take the match...
...guerrilla position is strongest in Guinea-Bissau (pop. 600,000); they control about one-third of the territory and one-fifth of the population. Two years ago, they got close enough to the capital city of Bissau to lob a few rockets into its outskirts. They have not been able to do so since. In Angola (pop. 5,700,000), the guerrillas of three separate rebel organizations maintain a steady campaign of harassment, but their strength is dissipated by bickering among themselves...
Captain Steve Kidder, the Harvard goalie, turned in the outstanding performance of the game making 16 saves. Early in the game he blocked a high lob to the right corner and then dove to block a shot to the left corner of the goal. On two occasions he stole goals from Husky wing Sotiris Tsantiris, blocking shots with spectacular dives from a very close range...
Columbia fumbled the kick-off and Harvard got the ball back on the Lion 12. Holt came back in and on third and seven tossed a short lob to junior halfback Steve Dart at the five. Dart took it in for the score. Tetirick's toe put Harvard on the half century mark...
Such aplomb befits the girl who has become the game's most attractive fashion plate since Gussie Moran flashed her lace-trimmed panties at Wimbledon more than two decades ago. Teeny lob-bers everywhere are mirroring the "Chrissie look": gold loop earrings, modishly cut tennis frocks, long hair parted in the middle and tied back with colored yarn, and-look Ma!-a two-handed backhand. The Chris Evert line of Puritan Tennis outfits, frilly, form-fitting tennis togs splashed with pastels, makes the squarish whites of old look like straitjackets. Now, with the figure to complement the filigree...