Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kileff maintained his three-year mastery over Jay Westcott by blitzing the Yale captain with powerful ground strokes for a 6-2, 6-3 win. Friedman, in what turned out to be the longest singles match of the afternoon, turned back the big game of Eli sophomore Bob McCallum by the deceptively wide margin...
...selected Harvard players enthusiastically. Bob Welz's triple, Neville's double and Houston's single off the third baseman's glove in the next inning quickly shut up the loudmouths. The third baseman then booted O'Donnell's grounder, allowing Houston to score. Two more errors on Dockery's ground ball to third let in the third and fourth runs of the inning, giving Harvard an 8-3 lead...
Harvard did manage to avert a shutout in the bottom of the ninth. Hootstein and Welz hit successive singles up the middle, and Hootstein scored from third on Neville's ground...
Since Sellers was working while golfing, Walsh sued both him and his company for $250,000, claiming that Sellers had negligently failed to wipe his hands before swinging, causing the club to slip. In answer, Sellers moved to have the suit dismissed on a seemingly unassailable ground: anyone who ventures on a golf course "assumes the risk of being struck by a ball" and is thus barred from seeking damages...
Along with bigness, Patterson emphasized new ideas. United was the first to use stewardesses, first to supply meals from its own kitchens instead of box lunches, first with ground-to-air, two-way radio, and first to use computers to draw up flight plans. "The little fellow," as employees called 5-ft. 4-in. Pat Patterson behind his back, could be dictatorial. Reasoning that first-class passengers could not watch in-flight movies and enjoy meals at the same time, Patterson cut out the movies. And on the scarcely convincing grounds that "stewardesses are not barmaids," United dispenses no drinks...