Word: cooperator
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...band struck up With a Little Bit of Luck at Brisbane's steaming Milton stadium, and it seemed the U.S. Davis Cup team would need plenty of it. Australia's Mai Anderson and Ashley Cooper were 10-to-1 favorites in what shaped up as the most lopsided cup challenge in years. The U.S. team had been racked by dissension. Ham Richardson, the U.S. top-ranked player, was dropped by nonplaying Captain Perry Jones as a singles player on the ground that his diabetic condition made him unfit to handle the workload, complained bitterly and publicly that...
...first serve it was obvious that he found the match interesting. Before the astonished eyes of 18,000 Australian partisans, Olmedo charged repeatedly for killing volleys, managed an upset victory 8-6, 2-6, 9-7, 8-6. Then Barry MacKay lost as expected to Australia's Cooper to tie the match score. But next day Olmedo teamed with Ham Richardson in the doubles against Anderson and Neale Fraser. The U.S. pair promptly lost the first two sets, had to rally desperately to win the third 16-14. In the break before the fourth set, Pro Champion Pancho Gonzales...
...talking moonshine to foresee a new future for the party," he asserted, pointing out the defeat of liberal Sen. John Sherman Cooper of Kentucky in the race for the position of Senate minority leader...
Separate Tables. Rita Hayworth, Deborah Kerr, Burt Lancaster, David Niven, Wendy Hiller and Gladys Cooper sit down to eat crow, served up by Playwright Terence Rattigan in a ratty old resort hotel. The actors gnash away in splendid style, though in the end they seem to be left with nothing more than a mouthful of feathers...
...periods the U.S. National team, with Army Pvt. Don Cooper of Wrentham in the nets, stood fast in the face of the Russian assault waves. But goals by Igor Dekonskii and Benjamin Aleksandrov within 14 seconds early in the third period broke the game wide open...