Word: linesmen
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...ambidextrous Geoff Brown, 22, who serves righthanded, hits with his left hand on the left side, and with a two-handed grip on the right side. Petra, 30, onetime French infantryman who spent 18 months in a German prison camp, barked at ball boys, scowled at the linesmen, whooped when he won a point. He was not so much surly or unsportsmanlike as unable to contain himself. Both Petra and Brown had blinding serves. Seldom had so much power and so little finesse been seen in a Wimbledon finals. Petra's winning scores...
...telescopic sighting device for football linesmen, avoiding the necessity of trotting on the field to measure a close first down...
Referee, Dr. Sid Cabot; linesmen, D. Beattle, Malden; J. Parsons, Boston...
...planes from Long Island fields often flew over the big stadium, where people sat in the sun of flawless Indian summer afternoons to watch and hear the ritual of first-class tennis: the shots resonantly made and returned, the ball boys bobbing across the courts, the explosive verdicts of linesmen, the players toweling their heads beside the umpire's platform, the massed groans, naughty whistles and well-mannered shushes of the crowd. Tennis history had neatly formed decades for the occasion: it was the 50th summer of play in the stadium, the 50th anniversary of the Club...
...into the southern flank of the German line, pushing it back. Rommel patiently shifted one of his crack Nazi mechanized divisions from the short to the long side of his line, to prevent being hemmed in too close to the sea. Then, at dawn one morning, Auchinleck's linesmen cracked the short side, drove through a division of Italians, advanced five miles in 90 minutes and took 2,000 prisoners...