Word: spins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Towards the beginning of the first set, it looked for Pompan as if this match would not be an easy one. In part, failure to compensate for his spin caused several early shots to land narrowly wide of the line. But any trouble was eminently temporary, and after Andrews narrowed the first set score to 3-2, Pompan met his opponent's power with his own impressive shot placing to record the easy...
...book, it became a bestseller, MGM bought the property and transformed it into big box office. In the decades A.T., film companies learned to acquire novels before publication-particularly if the author was a known quantity, like Irving Wallace or Jacqueline Susann. Publishers also learned to produce prose spin-offs-novelizations of hit movies. The current flood includes Alien, The Rose and Star Wars...
...Greg Louganis proved he could twist and spin both on the ground and in the air. A member of Dick Clark's American Bandstand troupe, Louganis danced to the latest hits and that summer became a hit himself, substituting a platform diving board for a platform stage and soaring to an Olympic silver medal...
...overt in their attack, or backtrack. Don't push. It's hard for hostile people to lose face. Let them get put from under their attack." The behavior of exploders-sudden yelling, cursing or crying-requires no action at all. Simply let the tirade or crying jag spin itself out and end in a guilty apology. If that fails, Bramson recommends a distancing line: "This is a very serious matter, but we can't handle it this way." The final line of defense is to leave the room, saying you will return in five minutes...
...team suffered the embarrassment of an inaugural five-game losing spin, Kleinfelder, Curry and company realized that a team with strength inside, startling backcourt speed and a duo of senior veteran captains could falter when they changed from practice duds into shiny crimson and white...