Word: wristing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kirkland House will open its first annual wrist-wrestling competition tonight to raise money for a scholarship fund established in honor of Andrew Puopolo '77, the football player killed in a Boston Combat Zone fight last November...
Cosgrove said he expects to raise approximately $500 from entry fees and the sale of tournament T-shirts. He added that the group plans to hold an Ivy League wrist-wrestling contest in May to raise more money for the Puopolo fund...
...cataract operations on both eyes, and wears sunglasses and a sun visor on the court. But none of the ailments of the Super-Seniors is as celebrated as that of L. Roe Campbell, 77, secretary-treasurer of the organization, who three years ago faced surgery to lock his right wrist in place. Undaunted, Campbell arrived at the hospital on the day of the operation carrying a tennis racquet. Instructing the surgeon to watch closely, he held the racquet in an Eastern forehand grip. "Lock the wrist just so," he ordered. Campbell's forehand, opponents complain, has never been more...
Intense, incredible. Nineteen seconds into the second sudden death overtime period UNH sophomore Bob Gould drilled a 20-foot wrist shot past Cornell goalie Steve Napier to give the UNH Wildcats a 10-9 victory in the first game of the ECAC semi-final held at the Boston Garden last night...
...right arm away from the wing-spread position and lock elbow out in front--down towards the ground. Her palm has opened and is ready to break her fall. Of course, the statuettes leave unsaid that this maneuver might also break all the bones in the dancer's thin wrist were she to plummet forward. But one suspects that Degas saw the possibilities...