Word: grasse
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...enough to get a driver's license in Sweden, his ground strokes had earned him recognition as one of the world's premier clay-court players. But his baseline style and his weak serve and volley made him a less effective player on the fast surfaces of grass and artificial outdoor and indoor courts. He caused teeny-bopper riots when he first came to Wimbledon in 1973 at age 17. But he bowed out, undone on the speedy grass...
Borg won the French Open, then left for London to practice on grass courts. He had been close to only one person other than his parents, Lennart Bergelin. The coach was anxious for Borg to concentrate on improving his game, and Borg was willing. But the young man, who had limited his long-distance telephoning to habitual every-other-day calls to his parents, was also anxious to locate Mariana. "I was playing a tournament in Scotland," she says. "Somehow he found me. We talked and talked...
Wimbledon--strawberries and cream, crested blazers, green grass courts, and all that. And for the last four years, Bjorn Borg...
...cover the whole world with asphalt, but a few blades of green grass will always break through," concluded Soviet Novelist Ilya Ehrenburg, as the Stalin era faded. And still they come: surprising new writers who have shattered the deadening conventions of the past. They have recoiled from the novel, viewing it as prefabricated Stalinist architecture. The genre of choice is the short story or novella. Many writers have managed gradually to escape from Socialist Realism, with its obligatory jargon and hortatory themes, traveling a world away -back to 19th century realism. Even Boris Pasternak and Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the two major...
...Roger Young, the bureau's official spokesman in Washington, hitting Jordan would have been an easy matter for even an average marksman, particularly if the rifle had a telescopic sight; the big man (6 ft. 4½ in., 225 Ibs.) was only 40 yds. away from the matted grass where the assailant lay in ambush...