Word: underhandedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Choongs taught themselves a choppy, aggressive game. Without teachers, they developed a repertory of overhand, underhand and backhand shots, some of them highly unorthodox by Western standards. Says David: "We'll try any thing." Together, the Choongs went to London in 1950 to study law. But they seldom let their studies interfere with their badminton. Always just a little better than David, Eddie won more than 150 tournaments before the American Badminton Association invited him to the U.S. He reckons that he has traveled 500,000 miles just to keep badminton dates. Long barnstorming tours, tough matches day after...
...tombstone. But he found it harder to meet the recurrent agony of writing: "A hundred pages more, and this cursed book is flung out from me." Some days he had "the strength of 20,000 cockneys"; on others he was "sunk as in tropical oppression" with a "base, underhand desire to lie down in everlasting leaden sleep." Sometimes the limp writing hand he held out for Jane Carlyle to pat was only slapped, and Carlyle would whimper, "You are not good to me just now." But more often she fought the literary battle out at his side, freely giving...
...second period, with Shaw particularly deadly, the varsity scored 25 points in less than seven minutes, to go far ahead. Shaw made five field goals in the second quarter, from long over-the-head sets, to an underhand rocket shot that brought laughs from everyone. And although he played only two-thirds of the game, Shaw finished only one point behind Dennis in final totals, with 18 points...
...Intervention. For Jake LaMotta, making the best fight of his plodding career, the eleventh and twelfth rounds were nightmares: Sugar Ray hit him with everything-jabs, hooks, straight rights, curving, underhand bolo punches-from the most varied locker of punches in boxing. Any ordinary fight would have been stopped by the referee in the eleventh, but Jake, truculently determined not to be counted out, had warned the referee beforehand not to intervene. At 2:04 of the 13th, as Robinson was beginning to show an obvious distaste for the one-sided slaughter, the referee stopped the fight. The finish found...