Word: cords
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...penholder" grip (which makes for an awkward backhand), but attacked so steadily that their opponents could seldom smash to their weak side. "Yoshi! Yoshi!" (Good! Good!) the partisan crowd cried each time a Japanese scored. Japanese women players stopped and bowed low every time they scored on a net cord shot or bounced a winning shot off the edge of the table. While minding their manners, they suffered one of the few Japanese losses: the ladies' cup went to Rumania's defending champs...
...Himself a paratrooper and winner of a battlefield commission (and now a TIME correspondent in Britain), Novelist Brown paints combat in its primary colors of blood, mud and terror. He also etches telling vignettes of the lunatic grotesqueries of war, e.g., a paratroop major with 20 ft. of primer cord wrapped around him and 40 lbs. of explosives on him is hit in the chest by a tracer bullet as he stands ready to jump, and reels back into the plane with the primer cord smoldering, but a quick-witted sergeant kicks him out, and he explodes...
While they lunched, dark, handsome Neophytos Sophocleous, newest of the Cypriot servants, was at work vacuum-cleaning the Harding bedroom. Later, Sir John's Armenian housekeeper found Sophocleous standing between Sir John's and Lady Harding's twin beds, rewinding the electric cord on the machine. Why wasn't he vacuuming? Said Sophocleous: "I have done all that is necessary." That night, while his army patrolled the city in Land Rovers with Sten guns at the ready, Sir John slept a round eight hours...
Only the local merchants successfully fought the elements. Although most Harvard Square stores closed their doors yesterday afternoon, Stonestreets remained open for business and solf three cord suits to optimistic College students. Business at the Varsity Liquor Store was better than ever...
...snow, it's the uncertainty. Hour exams are being called off; so are some classes. Yet many professors perversely refuse to declare their inability to cope. The Coop, J. Press, and the Andover Shop closed early, but yesterday Stonestreet's continues to remain open, thus making a killing on cord suit sales. Lamont suddenly closed down yesterday at five, while Widener remained open until the usual hour. All this has been extremely confusing...