Word: lob
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...small town. The dead boy is taken to his home. Slowly and stoically, men, women and children come to pay their respects. In pain and anger the family carry their son to his resting place. The funeral cortege is broken up by soldiers who fire in the air and lob tear-gas canisters into the crowd. On the way home from the funeral, I see an 80-year-old man being dragged by soldiers from his front porch and forced at gunpoint to clear the streets of debris...
Carrilo, who assisted on three tallies yesterday, made the scoring box for the first time since her two goal performance against Bowdoin, and notched one of her own with a 25-yard lob over McClure's outstretched arms to finish out the first half scoring...
Because of the improved ball handling, the offense no longer relies on "sending" a forward toward the goal with a lob pass, but rather uses more controlled, short, crisp passes, which accounted for 24 shots on goal...
...what an enchanting drawing room! Here, he conducts words as if they were grace notes from Mozart or thunderclaps from Wagner. He leads the dance of ideas as if it were a minuet of the mind. He deploys conflicting personalities like a field marshal and has them lob paradoxes at each other as if they were hand grenades...
...freshmen exhibited particularly sparkling play, indicating that the aquamen have a bright future ahead of them. Speedster Courtney Roberts, described by coach Stephen Pike as having played "a really great game," led Harvard with a team-record eight goals, including a penalty shot and a half-court lob into an open net in the fourth quarter. Roberts also tallied four assists...