Word: clay
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...match began as expected with Ashe breaking Lindner's serve for a 1-0 lead. But with a slow clay court to help him, Lindner managed to tame Ashe's serve and brought the match back...
...noticed that the only way I could beat him was to give him high shots and hope that he would come back with something I could put my forehand on," he said. "The clay courts slowed down that tremendous serve of his, and I got him to play my game...
...Forward Adrian Dantley made an easy lay-up after stealing a pass, and Guard Gary Brokaw (Notre Dame's high scorer with 25 points), hit two jumpers to bring the Irish to within one point with 1 min. 10 sec. left on the clock. Notre Dame Guard Dwight Clay finally ended the suspense. From the right corner, with 28 sec. left, he hit for Notre Dame's twelfth straight-and winning-point. With six sec. left, and the score 71-70, U.C.L.A. had three more chances to save the game. But Walton was wide with a short jumper...
...opening of the Japanese Diet early this month. He was not exaggerating. Since then, Japan's economic crisis, created by the energy shortage, has only grown worse. As Japan Times Editor Masaru Ogawa brooded editorially, it may turn out that "the Japanese economic giant has only feet of clay." Moreover, the political repercussions threaten to engulf Tanaka himself, and even raise the worrisome specter of a resurgence of Japanese nationalism...
During World War II, Walsh served as a lieutenant commander in the Navy, navigating combat and escort aircraft carriers. A colleague, George W. Mackey, Clay Professor of Mathematics and Theoretical Science, said yesterday that "Walsh was proud to have been the oldest Harvard professor still in active service during...