Word: wristed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Howe started off the first game with characteristic coolness and effortlessness--and Hetherington stole it from him, 15-8. In the second and third games. Howe turned it on from the wrist, unleashing devastating smashes that gave him eight straight ponnts and a 2-1 lead...
...Howe began to anticipate even that one, and in the end the powerful wrist won out. He took the deciding game 15-11 and won the tournament trophy that he had just missed last year when Steven Vehslage of Princeton beat him in the finals...
...Olivier Gendebien went even further: "To win here, you don't have to be the best driver-only crazier than the rest." Britain's Stirling Moss and the foreign contingent clucked at the pink powder puffs that Stock Car Driver Joe Weatherly wore on each wrist as goggle wipers. Said Stocker Glen ("Fireball") Roberts: "Hill and Moss? They've only got two hands and two feet, haven't they? I can dust...
Readying its report to the assembly, the Committee on Ethics and Guidance seemed unlikely to hand Carlino more than a wrist slapping. But Joe Carlino's prospects for bigger and better political things had certainly dimmed...
...most the commission could get out of Sarnoff was a grudging concession: "I think there are occasions when a slap on the wrist, or a little harder than that, helps. I don't object to that." Said Minow tartly: "Unless we are going to have more than slaps on the wrist, the industry is going to have to be forthcoming with some proposed changes...