Word: groundful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would appear that his more vivacious daughter has inherited something of that same crocodilian countenance, if one might judge from some of her expressions while addressing a golf ball. There was never a more machinelike player than Lacoste in his heyday. He won so consistently because his ground-strokes could not be faulted; and he was a past master of that now neglected piece of tennis finesse, the lob. His teammates, Cochet, with his half-volley, and Borotra, with his catlike ballet at the net, were the crowd-pleasers, not Lacoste, whose stroke-production always seemed to be rolling...
...cities is difficult enough. But the real headache is handling the flow from city to airport and in the airports themselves. As William Pereira, master planner for the Los Angeles Airport Commission, puts it: "The real bottleneck in the jet age is not in the air but on the ground. We must break the ground barrier...
...Americans have not lost interest in other things. In addition to working longer, they spend more time on hobbies, washing and grooming themselves, and activities away from the home. But just as radio listening has lost ground, so have reading, eating at home, visiting relatives, playing cards, dancing, pleasure driving, and participation in sports...
Strange Firefly. Scull and his wife Ethel - whose purchases helped get pop art off the ground - have 20 works scattered across the 1½ acres of their summer home in East Hampton, L.I. "Our lawn looked naked without sculpture," says Scull; he promptly commissioned ten young unknowns to fill the space...
...contract to supply the Hong Kong Hilton with a 1,000-ex-tension automatic phone system. Another rich market opening up is in worldwide satellite communications; ITT (after A.T. & T. the largest stockholder in the Communications Satellite Corp.) recently won the contract to build Indonesia's first satellite ground station...