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However, Lau made two amazing saves with the Eagles on a power play halfway through the second stanza. Lau came up with a flailing glove save on All-America winger Mullen's blazing slapper from 20 feet. Thirty-three seconds later Lau stuffed Sampson's close-range backhander...

Author: By Peter Mcloughlin, | Title: Harvard Hockey Dumps Boston College in OT | 1/10/1979 | See Source »

Stoyanovich, who had menaced freshman goaltender Wade Lau all night with blistering shots that somehow stayed out of the net, took a pass at the left point from defenseman Don Boyd, teed up, and fired home a low, vicious slapper that negated a furious third-period Harvard rally and sent a partisan capacity crowd of 4500 at Houston Field House into hysterics...

Author: By James G. Hershberg, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Harvard Rally at RPI Fails; Icemen Lose, 6-5, in Overtime | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

Savard picked up his third assist on Pierre Larouche's marker in the second, and Jacques Lemaire beat Bruin goalie Gerry Cheevers on a long slapper for the fourth tally...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Canadiens Thrash Bruins, 4-1; Savard Notches Three Assists | 5/24/1978 | See Source »

...then fired up to put the game out of reach for the Western College Hockey Association champs. Leading scorer Fidler drilled a low slapper past Baretta on a power play at 6:15 of the third period, and Silk chipped one past the netminder from right on the goal line a mere 35 seconds later...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: B.U. Badgers Wisconsin, 5-2; Silk Scores Two in NCAA Semis | 3/24/1978 | See Source »

That Georgia thigh-slapper provides the President with a metaphor to explain the trouble he has faced for almost a year. When he took office, his desk was piled high with work undone, needs neglected, problems postponed. Such urgent tasks as creating an energy policy, stopping the drain of Social Security funds and reforming the tax and welfare systems had been ignored or put off, largely because nobody had solutions that seemed workable or politically feasible. Like a quarterback who prefers the long bomb to the drudgery of three yards and a cloud of dust, the President threw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Sliding Down the Polls | 12/26/1977 | See Source »

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