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Word: overheads (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...team, Alex Haegler, seems almost certain to stay in that position all spring. Wynn even feels that Haegler would stand a good chance to be one of the first six varsity players. The tall Brazilian, who also starred on the freshman soccer team, possesses a fast serve and hard overhead smash to go with his considerable tournament experience...

Author: By Jere Broh-kahn, | Title: LINING THEM UP | 4/16/1952 | See Source »

...once a voice arose among The bleak twigs overhead In a full-hearted evensong

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A HARDY SAMPLER | 4/7/1952 | See Source »

Minutes later the two women lined their second shots toward the green. Overhead the Corsair's engine coughed and failed. Greenwood rolled the fighter into a vertical bank, hoping to get back to the airfield, or at least to ditch in the St. Johns River. He realized that he could not make it, looked desperately below, headed for the only open spot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Crash Landing | 3/31/1952 | See Source »

Stealing is a harsh word, so perhaps it is best to say that several style highlights of the new Ford line just happened to appear on GM models last year. In the way of original advancement, though, an efficient overhead valve six and a long overdue overhead valve eight for the Lincoln line. But the Mercury is, perhaps, more typical of '52's cars with only a slightly modified essentially thirteen year old engine but sporting various types of chrome slashes and strips and a completely superfluous fake slot running across the hood...

Author: By William Burden, | Title: All New for '52 | 3/21/1952 | See Source »

Lionette was the second highest scorer on last season's squad. His specialties are a hook shot that is almost impossible to stop on good nights and a fancy two-hand overhead set shot that he uses from close...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Basketball Team Elects Lionette As Captain of Next Year's Squad | 3/20/1952 | See Source »

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