Word: gammon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blonde, Marilyn does not have the strength for a big game, relies instead on steady retrieving to force her opponent into errors. Under the tutelage of Coach Tommy Bartlett, she has learned to keep her returns deep to prevent men from charging the net. Says Teammate Wirt Gammon Jr.: "Marilyn may not be the best in the world at putting the ball away, but she just keeps hitting it back, hitting it back...
...clubness and Harvard, from the pheasants in the kitchen freezer waiting their turn to appear under glass, to the dozen squash courts and the manly bar. The first floor has the traditional reading room, liberally stocked with newspapers and magazines. Beyond it is the hall with its traditional back-gammon tables so popular with club members. Filling out most of the rest of the Floor with its enormous dimensions (50'X100'X3 1/2 stories) is Harvard Hall with its traditional chandeliers...
...from the initials on his Air Raid Precautions uniform jacket). A bomb had deprived Arp of everything -house, family, name, memory and speech. But Old Cock talks enough for two-his language flows like pig's ear in a boozer on Saturday night and is rich as hot gammon. In a country of free teeth he has only five blackened stumps ("tombstones") and possesses nothing much but a cherished tapeworm, which he "gasses" with liberal quantities of raw onion. But his friendship with Arp glows like the lavatory float of "valuable copper" in a desert of uncommercial junk...