Word: joy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Borg, 18, seeded fourth after his sweep of the Italian and French opens earlier this year and a recent victory in the U.S. Pro Championships in Brookline, Mass. If Borg falters on the grass at the West Side Tennis Club, Sweden's sorrow could turn into joy for Argentina or Mexico. The hottest player on the men's circuit this summer has been Guillermo Vilas, 22, from Mar del Plata, Argentina. During one hot streak, Vilas won 29 consecutive matches. Mexican Raul Ramirez, 21, seeded 16th, has won $60,000 since June...
Even Griffith, who spent many years as a Brooklyn teacher, once placed a sign above his blackboard admonishing: "There's no joy in Jersey." But Griffith takes no pride in having helped put the kibosh on the dialect. "Brooklynese had a bluntness and homeliness," he says. "There is a real joy in variety. Now we're becoming phonetically homogeneous." And that, as they used to say in Brooklyn, is for da boids...
...they are customarily boring. Creamer, a senior editor of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, does not disguise the fact that his hero was an overgrown child and far from a genius. Ruth, in fact, sometimes had trouble remembering the names of fellow players. But he played baseball-and lived-with a headlong joy that has rarely been matched...