Word: badminton
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...engineered the Newport meeting with President Eisenhower in all good faith, worked tirelessly on Faubus. Said Mrs. Hays: "Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and find Brooks wide awake, thinking things out." Said Hays: "I felt like the sparrow that flew into the badminton game." Hays spent two hours with Faubus on Monday, four more on Tuesday, three on Wednesday and one on Thursday...
...only sports, but academic activity got a boost in 1953 with the construction of the athletic center. Utility rooms with great window walls alternately house fencing, modern dance, half-finished paintings, or badminton...
When the H.A.A. first emphasized its slogan, "Athletics For All", in the mid-thirties, and Badminton, Basketball and Polo were all minor sports, a new athletic team began and ended one of the most incredible careers in the University's athletic history...
Students who have fulfilled all physical standards can choose between a long list of inter-collegiate or intramural sports, or take classes in such improbable courses as tumbling, jui, jitsu, handball, badminton, polo, golf, and many others...
...three scenes, nevertheless, the film abandons plot and sophistication, descends to low comedy, and becomes hilarious. Alec Guinness shines at these times, particularly where he tries youthfully to retrieve a lost badminton bird and ends up with the net tangled about his legs and feathers in his teeth. Though not exceptional for a Guinness picture, in such spots To Paris, With Love, rises above routine comedy...