Word: graciously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Margaret Court, the gracious Australian ace, made the mistake of picking up Bobby's challenge, and the result was this year's Mother's Day massacre. Bobby rattled her by presenting her with a bouquet of roses before the match started. He neutralized her normally sharp attack with frustrating spins and lobs. Court did not merely lose, she disintegrated. Final score: 6-2, 6-1. Says King: "When I finally saw the film of the match and watched him present her with those roses and Margaret curtsy, I yelled 'Margaret, you idiot, you played right into...
...protection against the erosions of time. The newer wings, like the younger Bayard, are cast in the same traditional mold, but lack individual presence, and only make a mockery of emulation. And as each room's individual history is revealed, the mansion's benign cool-white exterior loses its gracious dignity...
...characters in Sybil Dorset's brain makes the heroine of Three Faces of Eve seem only mildly neurotic. As early as the age of three, Sybil began subdividing her personality, "dissociating" into other, utterly distinct characters. All had their own names, distinct vocabularies, accents and mannerisms. Vicky was gracious, self-assured, an attractive blonde. Mary was plump, quiet, with long brown hair, etc. Two of Sybil's other selves were boys who found it painfully confusing to have their residence in a woman's body...
...warehouse on a rear lot, he turned the complex into a theater. Residents of Montgomery, Ala., called Weese to save the classical pre-Civil War state capitol from legislators who want a new building. He has proposed new lighting and air conditioning and a refurbishing of the gracious old details, down to the yellow-pine floors and marble fireplaces...
...dinner given for the two leaders midway through their summit meeting in Iceland last week, Richard Nixon hoisted a glass to Georges Pompidou and offered the French President both a gracious toast and a telling reminder...