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With less than two minutes left in the period. Pierog unleashed a twirling wrist shot on goal with O'Reagan as a screen, and it beat O'Connor to the short side for a 2-1 B.U. lead...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Terriers Hoist Beanpot; Harvard Last | 2/9/1982 | See Source »

...Haig's gesture was hardly even a slap on Gromyko's wrist. The Soviet Foreign Minister had come to Geneva hoping not so much for an announcement of future negotiations as for an opportunity to play to a West European audience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Linking the Unlinkable | 2/8/1982 | See Source »

Debbie Taft made a rink-long rush, faking around two Colby defensemen, only to have her backhand slide just wide. Sue Newell let go a wicked wrist shot, but a screened Mead got her stick on it at the last minute...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Colby Shuts Down Skaters' Attack, 2-0 | 1/15/1982 | See Source »

...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 »

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