Word: smoothed
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Thomas is the exception which proves the rule that the top man on a squash ladder is usually the best all-around player. He stands alone, unchallenged, with only one loss. But he isn't a smooth, poised player like Captain Pete Milton or third place Martin Hockshire. He lacks the finesse of Milton's stroke and the sharp court tactics of Hockshire. Corey explains the dilemma with "he's a fighter, with terrific power, the kind of guy who never lots...
Where Thomas is fast, Milton smooth, and Hockshire sharp, fourth place Lee Rosenberg serves the finest game on the club. "Lee's experienced, has the touch, but it's that serve which wins matches," says Corey...
Captain Bill Cleary is in a class by himself. According to head Coach Cooney Weiland he could be playing for the varsity this year. Not a flashy player. Cleary with his smooth style has nevertheless managed to accumulate 28 points in six games. His skating, stickhandling, ice sense, and scoring put them at least notch above the average freshman player. Yet it is his outstanding passing that largely accounts for the first line's scoring punch...
Without the B-O-M accolade (and the jacket reminder that Phillips is really Marquand Jr.), the book might have been noted only as a mildly wry comedy of bad manners that borrows much of its tone from F. Scott Fitzgerald and most of its technique from that smooth architect of fiction, Pulitzer Prizewinner John P. (for Phillips) Marquand...
Except for the first period, which opened in a rush, and kept getting faster and faster, the Huskies played mainly a defensive game, as Brad Richardson's more 24 saves would indicate. But the Crimson, falling to capitalize at enter-ice, seldom got its usual smooth team play working and event occasionally, did not handle the rebounds well...