Word: stick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shove him self quickly around the cage, Hall pulls on the goal posts or the bar across the top of the net. When a shot actually comes, Hall has no time to think. He picks off the puck with anything handy-his padded chest, a skate, his flat, stubby stick or his huge left mitt. Says he: "Afterwards you have time to figure out your mistakes...
...time." During a game. Hall frets most while the Black Hawks are on the attack ("I start fighting myself, particularly if the other goalie is making a lot of great saves"). He fusses constantly over uneven ice, since the slightest bump can deflect a puck over a stick and into the goal. Standing in the nets, Hall often seems to be racked with agonized sighs: "I breathe deeply trying to relax-a trick I learned from watching basketball players at the foul line...
BILL PIPER has turned over most of the company's day-to-day operations to his three sons-William Jr., Howard and Thomas-but he still keeps a firm hand on the stick. Up before 7 every day, he walks the mile from his small home to the company's offices in Lock Haven. Pa., hatless and overcoatless in all weather. Though he no longer singlehanded lifts Cubs off the ground, a feat he once liked to perform to amaze onlookers, he often pauses at the production line to lend a hand in hoisting a wing into position...
Minutes later Dwinell passed back to Dave Grannis, who got off a shot from about 30 ft. out. Beckett tipped it in for the second Crimson score. With only seconds remaining in the period, the Eagles' all-American defenseman Red Martin came down his own right board, stick-handled past four Crimson players, and laid a perfect pass on the stick of first-line wing Jack Leetch. From ten feet out, Leetch missed the cage...
...specialty were alive with novel and productive ideas. The coincidence was explosive. For Pauling believes that "the best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas." He had plenty. His theory about the nature of the chemical bond, the forces that make atoms stick together, won him a Nobel Prize in 1954. "Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life," says Pauling...