Word: grasse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While the scuffed grass of the All England Club's Centre Court began its annual post-championship airing out, this year's Wimbledon winners, John McEnroe, 24, and Martina Navratilova, 26, were being toasted during the post-tournament dinner at London's Savoy Hotel. McEnroe, who crunched New Zealand's Chris Lewis in the straight set men's finals, had even worked on his backhanded temperament, going so far as to shake hands with the umpire and referee after one match. "I think I've made a conscious effort to get along," said...
...family of twelve huddles in a two-room shack, hoping to survive on the $22 a month it receives from the government. The reason: with no vegetation to eat, cattle have collapsed on their feet, or simply died. Some villagers in India are reduced to chewing grass, sucking the roots of herbs and scrambling alongside animals to lap up water that spills out of pumps. In drought-plagued areas of the Philippines that have seen outbreaks of locusts, even those pests have been sold for food. Millions of Africans are aching through a dry spell perhaps less severe but certainly...
...less familiar skills of 16th-seeded American Tim Mayotte, unseeded New Zealander Chris Lewis and Curren on one side of the bracket, while John McEnroe (No. 2 seed) and Ivan Lendl (3) fought it out rather tamely on the other. Lendl has a slight allergy and tremendous aversion to grass and actually skipped Wimbledon last year. But at 23, he appears ready to confront McEnroe, 24, on every surface from here on out. This is the next great tennis argument and they should be years settling it. Each man likes the other about as much as a foot fault...
...fortnight at Wimbledon. Last week, on just one typical afternoon at the old club, eighth-seeded Vitas Gerulaitis lost, chucked his racquet into the stands and refused to talk to anybody. Fifteenth-seeded Hank Pfister, able to put more top spin on his racquet, bounced it off the spongy grass court 15 ft. into the sky, across a fence and into the audience. He also lost, owing to a warning for "racquet abuse," a point's deduction for "an audible obscenity" and a delay of game penalty that cost him a tie breaker and a set. "You cannot default...
...John McEnroe, but especially McEnroe, who almost at that precise moment was coiled at the foot of an umpire's chair threatening to walk out of the tournament. In an injured voice, McEnroe said later, "I was warned for delay of game just for trying to put grass back into the hole I made." By the way, he had just gouged the turf with his racquet...