Word: lias
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...change in the design of the tennis racquet in more than a century, Surely in the past tennis has seen its oddities. Witness Richard Sears, the first U.S. champion in 1881, who used a rectangular racquet. The tennis world has not been immune to other experimentation... a racquet shaped lia a pitchfork, diagonal stringing, crooked handles, and the infamous spaghetti racquet, a springly double-string device which, until its banishment, put a remarkable array of spins on the ball so looking back, it is no small miracle that today oversized racquets have succeeded in a sport so stubborn to change...
...recreational purposes." Many citizens agreed. Asked Housewife Ingrid Steinberger: "Why should I be forced to look at naked behinds?" The letter also threatened vigilante action if the police refused to take steps. Equally outraged, though not notably logical, the forces of nudity argued back. Asked pretty Student Lia Walden, 24: 'Why don't those pious Catholics take offense at the naked putti and angels that dot our churches?" Said another: "The majority of passers-by seem delighted...