Word: badminton
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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...
...number sound like a theme and variations. The quartet usually started with well-known tunes (These Foolish Things, St. Louis Blues), then varied the tempo (from 4/4 to 5/4 and back to 3/4) as it injected its own sometimes loud, sometimes soft designs. The solo lead flew like a badminton bird from one musician to the other...
...Grosse Pointe, Mich., Judy Devlin, 23-year-old Baltimore schoolteacher and daughter of Former World Champion J. Frank Devlin, drubbed all opponents to win the U.S. open badminton singles for the fourth straight year, in the final allowed her opponent only a single point...
...tutorial sessions are mixed; the dining rooms may follow; it is but a short step to the athletic field. Intramurals in badminton and volleyball and field hockey would complement the new system and the coming of spring...
...decision to shuttle Cabinet officers like badminton birds between Washington and Denver was made by the White House staff as a whole. But Hagerty, who does not consider it his duty to stress the dark side of presidential life, certainly saw to it that the visiting dignitaries, and the routine papers they brought for the President to sign, were heralded in headlines. He produced them for interviews and at least once handed a Cabinet member a statement to read about how well Ike looked-before the man had even been in to see the President...