Word: australian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lost out in the very first match. The seeding committee gave her a first-round bye. And then it sent her up against Australia's No. 1-seeded Margaret Smith, a big girl with a big game, virtually undefeated in the past ten months, winner of the Australian, French and Italian titles, a 4-5 favorite to win at Wimbledon, go on to take the U.S. title, and complete a grand slam of women's tennis...
...hoity was the 19-year-old Australian that she had decided to quit the touring Australian team for her own private tour, and was busily engaged in a feud with Team Manager Nell Hopman...
...that English may yet suffer the same fate as Latin, the world's first truly international tongue, which became fragmented into French. Italian and Spanish after the fall of the Roman Empire. "The danger is very real that English will break down into Oxford English, New York English, Australian. Russian, Chinese English and so forth." Exploring examples of conflicting usages, Eccles pointed out that "flat" means "puncture" in New York and "apartment" in London, wondered "what to do about the young English gentlemen who call a donkey an arse...
...News headlined BOOM AFTER GLOOM and the Financial Times index showed its biggest morning surge since the 1959 Tory election win-though prices sagged again by week's end. Most dramatic of all was the recovery of the Sydney Stock Exchange: slow to receive news of Blue Monday, Australian investors were just beginning their big sell-off when a flash that Wall Street was rallying cut it short...
...call it," says Sir Frank Packer, head of the three-man syndicate that built Gretel. Though U.S. yachtsmen have reservations about Gretel's design-some thought her "long-ended," said her fore-and-aft overhang might make her hobbyhorse in a brisk breeze-they conceded that the trim Australian boat might well be the toughest challenger...