Word: courtly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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BOSTON--Atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair, who in the 1960s successfully sued to ban compulsory prayers in U.S. public schools, asked a federal court Tuesday to stop John Paul II fron celebrating a mass October 7 on the Washington Mall...
...stood silently on the service line, fuming, her hands on her hips and her racket lying on the court where she had dropped it a moment before...
...experience the U. S. Open without being there. TV just doesn't cut it when it comes to covering an event that attracts hundreds of matches and players and thousands of fans and spreads them over 30 courts and two weeks. Sure, when it gets down to the semis and finals or other times deemed convenient by CBS, you can usually count on five cameras and slo-mo and continuous (if sometimes inane) commentary. You get a fine view of the stadium court, and you know who won or lost...
...home, you don't hear the rumours about what's going on out at Court 17, or get dirty looks from ushers when you run behind the court carrying your $3.50 plastic-enclosed chef's salad. You don't get burned by the sun or soaked by the rain. You don't hear the cheers that drift over from Shea Stadium. And there's always a technician waiting to tune out the noise when a jet from LaGuardia thunders...
Which is what happened to Scanlon and Navratilova. They were minding their own business on a side court, methodically overcoming the less-than-dynamic duo of Van Winitsky and Rayni Fox before a few bored passers-by. Then the crowd started pouring out of the stadium when the final featured match of the day ended. It was time to leave--the night session would start in little more than an hour...