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Braden's view of the California court manners of recently unleashed female players competing against their own sex is borne out by experiences elsewhere in the country. Says a Georgia psychiatrist: "They look at the ball and think of it as the washing-machine repairman, and flail away." The Atlanta Lawn Tennis Association, which began in 1950 with just 35 members, now has 10,000, among them 4,500 women who compete every week on 400 organized teams. This year the competition on and off the court, and the consequent bickering, grew so hot and ludicrous that many veteran players...
...candidate in three places: Rome, Venice and the mountain town of Avezzano in Abruzzi. Should he win all three, he would choose one -probably Rome-and pass on the remaining two to other Communists. Berlinguer, who becomes a magnetic orator on the campaign trail, is using his notoriety to flail Christian Democrats "who have enjoyed and enjoy enormous positions of power and have used it not to renew Italy, not to work for justice but to fleece Italy." He can turn out crowds of 30,000 or more even in the heavily Christian Democratic south. Even some non-Communists...
...flail ya; You have miscaptioned...
...pane of a glass-bottomed boat, sitting down on a turned-around chair leaning his arms on the shield of its back. When he's got everything solved, and his life awaits that final gesture of control when all the pieces come together, all he can do is flail around in circles going nowhere. When you're a detective investigating yourself, it's impossible to escape the mercenary nature of the trade, impossible to have any moral impact...
...without ever identifying the main themes of her conversations. She asks the same questions in the same order, sets up her attorneys for the joust but never allows them to begin combat with each other. Taken out of the courtroom and isolated from their opponents all too often they flail...