Word: gentil
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...competition Dutton defeated Harvard's number two player, John Ingard, 6-1, 6-3, and John Hayes overpowered Chip Baird, 6-3, 6-2, in the fourth singles match. Freshman John Horn, who won most of his fifth singles contests in straight sets during the year, lost to Eduardo Gentil...
Ingard and Horn, teaming at second doubles, crushed Colson and Hayes, 6-2, 6-4, while Reiner and Baird pulled out a 6-4, 3-6, 6-2 win over Gentil and Sandy McLanahan...
...extraordinary number of people who had known or met him. Sir Roger Casement seemed the Edwardian era's parfit gentil knight. Handsome, beguiling, dedicated and quixotic, he spent his life, fragile health and meager income tilting not against windmills but against millstones: the brutal burdens loaded on colonialized peoples by their self-styled civilizers, not least upon his beloved Ireland. As far as his abilities were concerned, Casement was the kind of man who in other times and circumstances might have been an explorer, poet, or U.N. Secretary-General. As it turned out, this proud and eventually demented Irish...