Word: overhand
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...Choongs taught themselves a choppy, aggressive game. Without teachers, they developed a repertory of overhand, underhand and backhand shots, some of them highly unorthodox by Western standards. Says David: "We'll try any thing." Together, the Choongs went to London in 1950 to study law. But they seldom let their studies interfere with their badminton. Always just a little better than David, Eddie won more than 150 tournaments before the American Badminton Association invited him to the U.S. He reckons that he has traveled 500,000 miles just to keep badminton dates. Long barnstorming tours, tough matches day after...
...most of the credit to Chicago Manager Paul Richards, a former catcher whose knowledge on the handling of pitchers is as deep as a well. Richards trained Trucks to change his grip on the "change-up" pitch, i.e., his slow ball, and to abandon his sidearm delivery for an overhand motion. Says Trucks: "I never thought I'd be learning a new pitch in my sixteenth year in baseball, but it's a good one. Kinda like a screwball...
...start of 13. the referee and both the judges had Walcott ahead on rounds; all that Jersey Joe had to do was stay even in the last three. He retreated toward the ropes, threw one ineffectual left. Then Marciano drove home a short overhand right to the head. It was straight and true, not just a wild thrust that happened to land square. Walcott slumped as if his knees had suddenly turned to jelly. Marciano grazed him with a left, then confidently stepped back. Walcott hung on the middle rope for a moment, then slid to the canvas. The fight...
Using short hooks, uppercuts and flailing overhand punches, Salas waded into the tired champion. All through the late rounds, bleeding from cuts over and under his left eye, Carter tried to hang on. He did, barely. The referee thought Carter's early-round advantage was enough to win, but the two judges voted for little beetle-browed Brawler Salas...
...game uses two wickets, which face one another at either end of the 22-yard long "pitch." One batsman comes out and stands in front on a wicket ready to defend it. Another batsman stands beside the other wicket. The enemy pitcher or "bowler" pitches overhand from the undefended wicket towards the defending batsman and tries to hit his wicket. If he can do so, the unlucky batsman will be declared "stumped," and will have to retire off the field, to be replaced by a teammate. Since a team numbers eleven players, the enemy will have to knock out nine...