Word: badminton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...host was in an ebullient vacation mood. Nikita Khrushchev met his guests, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Lippmann, at the gate of his Black Sea villa, and for the next eight hours he filled them with food and wine, battered them with talk and badminton (Khrushchev and a lady press aide v. the Lippmanns). By then, the 71-year-old columnist was bushed: "We insisted on leaving in order to go to bed." He flew off to record his second private audience in three years with the Soviet Premier.* Between the wine and badminton, Lippmann's ear had caught enough...
...winter, 'Cliffies play basketball, volley ball, and badminton in the gymnasium and occasionally bowl in tournaments at the Harvard Bowlaway. In the spring, it's back outside for softball, lacrosse, sailing, and archery in the Quad. One dorm representative noted that the program even includes bridge and ping pong--"to keep them alive...
...rocketry (after a son was lost when a World War II rescue plane was unable to take off). Although his battle to acquire "enough diversification so that my sons [four surviving] wouldn't have to scrap with each other" eventually made him the producer of everything from badminton birds to wrought iron. O'Neil kept tabs on the bosses of his 46 far-flung subsidiaries and affiliates with the frequent query, "Why the hell aren't you fellows making more money?" Last year his General Tire, which netted $620 in 1915, made $26 million...
Cage's self-styled "anarchistic situation" lasted for 30 minutes and was titled Theatre Piece. The composer himself stood in a corner with his back to the flimsy curtain. On the badminton-court-sized stage were eight performers confronting a weird assortment of props: a grand piano, a tuba, a trombone, a cluster of plastic bags hanging by a thin wire and dripping colored water into a washtub, a swing, a string of balloons, a pair of bridge tables littered with the debris of some nightmarish New Year's Eve-champagne bottle in bucket, movie projector, alarm clock...
Hapless Precedent. Bemused, its barricades bristling with aphorisms, Oxford lost to Cambridge in rugby, badminton and lacrosse. In the press, antiquarians wryly recalled the dark days of 1907, when Lord Curzon, former Viceroy of India, defeated Lord Rosebery, former Prime Minister, by going to such extremes as dragging the Ambassador to Belgium all the way across the Channel to vote. Others recalled that former Prime Minister Lord Oxford and Asquith, who lost to a relatively unknown opponent, had taken his defeat hard in 1925. In order to find a precedent for a Prime Minister's seeking the job while...