Word: alen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Surely, Mr. Sorel intended Woody Alen to represent a creature known in Greek mythology as a satyr. Or maybe Pan, the great god of nature. Either would have been more applicable than comparing him to the devil. Come on now -Woody Allen the incarnation of evil...
Calculating entrepreneurial intellectuals took a look at tennis and thought for a while. There were some of the raw materials already intrinsic to the game: the sudden death nature of the tiebreakers introduced by James Van Alen in the 60s; overhead smashes and crosscourt chops, cuts, slices, lobs, which reminded World War II army vets of mortars and grenades; volleying at the net was like hand-to-hand combat; and the ace was like heavy artillery...
...These rich are very star-struck," observed a technician, trying to ride herd on a crowd that included Mrs. James Van Alen, Mrs. Claiborne Pell, Mrs. T.J. Oakley Rhinelander and Mr. and Mrs. Wiley Buchana.n...
...sheer unattractiveness, nothing quite matched Tiriac's attack on James Van Alen, a patriarch of American tennis. Objecting to what he thought was razzing, Tiriac stalked over to the stands, threatened to emasculate Van Alen and called his startled wife a bitch. When Smith shook hands with Tiriac after their match, he told the Rumanian: "I've lost a lot of respect for you in the last three days." Said Ralston, summing up the U.S. reaction to the tawdry affair: "I still can't believe...