Word: returns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...service breaks before the score reached 6-6 in the critical third set. Then, at 4-4 in the tie-breaker, Curley, unable to put away three previous match points, set a low backhand volley down the center of court which jammed Stone on his forehand side. The return landed a foot wide of the sideline on Curley's backhand side, and the Crimson had its fourth and in the end, decisive, singles victory...
Number two Scott Walker, the only Crimson player to take his match in straight sets, totally dominated Adam Brock. Pulling ahead early, he used his patented service return to break Brock's serve repeatedly and finish him off in less than an hour...
...Qarani's assurances that Iran would abide by its agreement with the U.S. not to share its arsenal of Amerlean-supplied planes, missiles and other weapons with any other state. Qarani predicted that foreign military advisers, and perhaps some technicians from the U.S., would soon be invited to return to Iran...
...better tease. Though nearly everyone on the staff of The American Woman is female, Neil Amberson, the top editor, is decidedly male, a discount sultan who sleeps with all of his editors once, then keeps them wondering why he didn't ask for seconds. Sara does get a return visit, in some of the raunchiest sex scenes in recent fiction, but it is all for nothing. She has misjudged who really has control of the magazine. Neil is on his way out, and Helene, his foul-mouthed assistant, is on her way in, exhaling the dragon's breath...
...Engelhard Public Affairs Library: This guy gave the money. Objection: Made fortune using apartheid labor. Further Objection: Suspicious links to Kennedy-Bok-Rosovsky. Objection to the Objections: What do we do with the library now that it's built? Can we return it with the receipt? Final Objection: Has tendency to provoke silly contests...