Word: charleye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Travels with Charley, Steinbeck...
...Travels with Charley, Steinbeck...
...Travels with Charley, Steinbeck...
...Travels with Charley, Steinbeck...
...with an astounding lack of grace. He leaps, he lunges, he scrambles, he slides, he falls, he dives, he skins his elbows and knees, and he flails at the ball as if he were clubbing a rat. His nerves are as taut as the strings of his racket. "Oh, Charley, you missed that one," he hollers after a bad shot, and he drew a four-month suspension from the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association when he angrily heaved his racket into the stands during a 1960 Davis Cup match in Australia. In 1961 McKinley fought his way into the Wimbledon finals...