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Word: spiked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Against Lowell, the players had trouble continuing long point rallies, and despite a few good plays, couldn't maintain an aggressive attack. It wasn't until the Crimson had lost 13-15 in the first set that the Spikers settled back and displayed some passing spike teamwork. Harvard took the second...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Volleyballers Slide | 10/15/1982 | See Source »

...more depth and flexibility to the Crimson's pass-set-spike attack Altman has begun trying new players in different spots, until she finds the best network of players...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Spikers Split Straight-Set Decisions In Tri-Meet With Wellesley and Smith | 10/6/1982 | See Source »

After a clumsy start with two net plays miscalled, freshman Anna Collins smashed a spike down the throats of two unprepared BU setters. Margaret Cheng was all over the court, hitting to Nina Henderson and Collins. BU couldn't get favorable positioning and Harvard took the first two games with ease...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collins, Yanelli Stand Out At B.U. Volleyball Match | 9/29/1982 | See Source »

August for baseball fans is usually a month to contemplate home runs, pennant fever and World Series possibilities. The game's exotica, like base-stealing records, are condemned to wistful tavern afternoons. There, oldtimers can sip a brew or two and contemplate Ty Cobb's 96 high-spike steals in 1915, Maury Wills' well-plotted 104 in '62, and Lou Brock's legendary 118 eight years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Rickey Henderson Steals First | 9/6/1982 | See Source »

...swords. Life, it would seem, is cheap in the mystic East, at least when an Occidental director like John Frankenheimer invades Japan to make a martial-arts movie. Glenn and Mifune invade the industrial fortress of Mifune's brother and, banzai! 23 men are dead of arrow, sword, spike and gunshot wounds. Honor is all, death is nothing-except the excuse for some spectacular carnage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Machochists | 8/9/1982 | See Source »

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