Word: australian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wimbledon, Australian tennis suffered an unexpected bump in the quarterfinals when Ken Rosewall was upset by Denmark's Kurt Nielsen, and Lewis Hoad was beaten by Philadelphia's Vic Seixas...
...London, America's top-ranking tennis player, 39-year-old Gardnar Mulloy, angrily hurled his racket at a linesman and stormed off the Queens Club court after he was beaten, 6-8, 7-5, 8-6, by Australian Rex Hartwig, an unseeded player, in the London tennis tournament. Fumed Mulloy: "I should have won. I was robbed...
...short) is a queer chap, human in that he smokes his meat and buries his dead; simian in many of his physical characteristics; a bit of both in that, though normally erect in stance, he is happy to drop on all fours and thunder off at a gallop. Australian wool interests hope that the "tropis" will prove to be a dream-come-true-workers who can be trained to operate a loom without benefit of paycheck...
...Australian-born Explorer Sir Hubert Wilkins, 64, brown-bearded veteran of ten Arctic and Antarctic expeditions and a submarine trip that took him within 400 miles of the North Pole, was appointed a geographer in the Research and Development Division of the U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps...
...Australia, Robert Peters, whose qualifications on paper were excellent. When the new term began, Roberts had not arrived. Pusey took over his course in ancient history, waiting anxiously for his new professor. After 4 weeks had passed without Peters, student speculation was rife: one story had Peters captured by Australian canibals, another had him washed overboard during his voyage to America. Jaime, Pusey's younger son, then 7, immediately named his imaginary friend "Peters," and the President wished increasingly as the months dragged on that his long overdue employee would turn up. For years passed and this spring when...