Word: croqueted
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These old friends and adversaries had once made the national press with a backyard decathlon, one of whose events required contestants to dogtrot through the intricacies of a croquet course, portaging a full-size canoe. But while the decathlon was amusing, it was not fully satisfying in terms of life-or-death savagery. The symbolism of the Nel-Spot, on the other hand, was red in tooth and claw. Someone mentioned seeing an ad for the pistol in a magazine, and it was instantly clear that opportunities for misuse were endless. The three of them roughed out the National Survival...
...Playtex Challenge (the other two were the U.S. Indoors and the Family Circle Cup). Centre Court matters concluded, the Wimbledon governing body-which had refused McEnroe membership last year as punishment for his superbrat behavior-issued a final decision: "The committee of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club announce that Mr. J.P. McEnroe has been elected an honorary member of the club...
...house for an informal visit and expect a gin and tonic. At Sunny's house, you got imported champagne." The party celebrating Alexander's 21st birthday was especially memorable. Women in white dresses carrying parasols and men in white suits and straw boaters played croquet on a manicured lawn that stretched...
...croquet at Yale...
...weeks of the 94th Wimbledon Championships, they resembled nothing so much as disappointed children kept in at recess, staring wistfully from clubhouse windows as the glowering skies dumped near record rains and even a hailstorm on the hallowed courts of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club...