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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...which had suffered a 9-1 thrashing at the hands of Providence's Lady Friars, met an identical fate against Harvard in the consolation game. Right wing Liz Ward's wrist shot beat RIT goalie Lorri Tuohey just seven seconds into the game, and the Crimson giggled all the way home...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Icewomen Fall to Tigers, Crush RIT And Finish Third at Princeton Tourney | 1/4/1982 | See Source »

Doomsday again! But Dr. Strangelove has sunk to the bottom of some obscure think tank, and The China Syndrome has been diagnosed as a disease of the wrist afflicting Ping Pong addicts. From the grandly atomic, our fantasies of Armageddon have apparently deteriorated, in a few short years, to the meanly fiscal. Rollover asks us to contemplate what would happen to our money-market accounts if the Arabs were to withdraw their oil wealth from the Western banking system, convert it into a mountain of gold bars and then sit smirking atop it, watching the rest of the world lapse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Fiscal Fizzle | 12/21/1981 | See Source »

PROVIDENCE, R.I.--Sudden death. Think about that for a minute, One little defensive lapse, one little missed check, one little bobble of the puck, one sneaky little wrist shot and--BANG!--it's all over. Sudden death. One of the most agonizing moments in sports...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Life and Death | 12/14/1981 | See Source »

Apparently the jury did not find either side's case convincing and compromised with a slap-on-the-wrist verdict...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wrist Slap | 12/14/1981 | See Source »

...just a little more than a minute later, Harvard captain Mike Watson picked off an errant Wildcat pass just outside the blueline and wheeled in on Pearson's right side. But as the UNH goalie moved to guard the right post, Watson snapped a quick wrist shot high into the opposite side of the net for a 2-1 Harvard advantage...

Author: By Michael Bass, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: High Speed and High Quality | 12/10/1981 | See Source »

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