Word: australian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inducement seemed to be working. Since the offer was first made in May, inquiries at the rate of 100 a day have been made at the Australian consulates in New York and San Francisco. To date, only about 100 applicants have actually been cleared to enter Australia...
There were also, of course, the Australians: blond, ambidextrous Jack Bromwich, husky, lob-loving Dinny Pails, bespectacled Colin Long (Bromwich's doubles partner) and temperamental Geoff Brown. They, too, had a lot to do. For their final five days of intensive practice, they engaged a sparring partner-U.S. Professional Frank Kovacs, the champion screwball of all tennis players. The Australian problem was clear-cut but tough: in just eight months they were trying to lift their outmoded, prewar game to U.S. standards...
Lesson No. 2. Some Australians had thought that last December's steamy, 100° Melbourne weather would melt the starch right out of the challenging U.S. Davis Cup stars, Kramer & Schroeder. The starch oozed out of the Australians instead. They lost five straight matches (and the cup). But instead of acting crushed, the Australians got a gleam in their eye. Sir Norman Brookes, boss of the Australian Lawn Tennis Association and onetime Wimbledon champion, issued a communiqué: "The aggressive type of tennis played by your men should have a great influence on our future stars...
...Montreal the Australian Davis Cup team of Jack Bromwich, Dinny Pails and Colin Long beat Czechoslovakia in the interzone final, 4-1. The Aussies will tackle the U.S. in the challenge round at Forest Hills, at the end of this month...
...Australian doctors were marveling last week at a baby story in their Medical Journal. The baby's young mother, when seven months pregnant, had accidentally shot herself in the abdomen. A surgeon found that the .22 bullet had gone through her uterus. He sewed up the mother's wounds, deciding against a Caesarean for fear of infection. Five days later a premature 5½ lb. baby was born alive and healthy except for a bloodless bullet hole drilled neatly through its thigh...