Word: badminton
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...their copy of Sports News were treated to a smashing journalistic tripleheader. One major story reported on Kung Fu matches in the rural communes. Another offered a detailed and edifying answer to a reader's query asking whether an athlete who is afflicted with piles should play badminton and shadowbox (he should). The third scoop was a blow-by-blow account of how Chiang Ch'ing, the wife of Chairman Mao Tse-tung, murdered her ailing husband last year, offering the latest twist in the continuing campaign against Madame Mao. Three of the Chairman's physicians charged...
Other New York staffers have forsaken tennis for the more convenient indoor pursuits of squash, pelota or Ping Pong. But World Writer George Russell, a former Calgary, Alberta, high school badminton doubles champion, cannot convince his colleagues of the exciting nature of that sport. Says he: "Unfortunately, people consider it a pastime for the back lawn. No one believes how cutthroat...
...frisbee sailed slowly over the head of Margaret R. Cowperthwaite '79 and settled down next to the cot where she was sleeping. Across Radcliffe Yard, the shouts from an all-out game of badminton awakened a half-dozen other sleepers. They sat up to watch the sunrise over Byerly Hall and the motley army of jobseekers parked in front of it. It was 5:30 on Tuesday morning, and the crowd knew that Byerly's doors would not open for another three hours...
...many, though. the night was a welcome change of pace from the pressure of late-semester studying. A badminton game and the scattered remains of midnight snacks gave the Radcliffe Yard a campground atmosphere that startled some passers-by on their way to work...
...seemed a storm in a stirrup cup. "Columbus was overridden and possibly even terrified," declared an outraged TV viewer of the Badminton horse trials in Gloucestershire. Animal Lover Jean Pyke was attacking Captain Mark Phillips for his handling of the hunter that had been lent to him by his mother-in-law for the grueling three-day contest of dressage, show and cross-country jumping. A big gray, Columbus had galloped off with the Whitbread Trophy to the delight of Winner Mark and Owner Queen Elizabeth, and the wifely acquiescence of Princess Anne, who placed fourth in the event. Mark...