Word: lob
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lob One." As for the rest of the book, which is certain to be a bestseller, White had his problems. In The Making of the President 1960, he told the story of one of the most exciting, closely fought elections in U.S. history. In telling of 1964, he is at the mercy of his material-one of the dullest, most one-sided elections ever...
...this hardship seemed to affect the leaders of Sukarno's swollen (412,000-man) armed forces, which this year will receive half of Indonesia's $2 billion budget. Gold-braided and grinning, the army chief of staff recently pressed a button on a Djakarta beach to lob an Indonesia-built rocket a full 21 miles into the Java Sea. Immediately the army began boasting that it would have intercontinental ballistic missiles in no time...
...Sighing, Stolle sank into a chair at courtside while Hopman hovered over him, whispering furiously in his ear. What he said has been lost to history. But Stolle nodded, stalked onto the court, and broke Ralston's serve right back-with a perfectly placed lob that landed smack on the base line for the winning point. After that, Ralston seemed to collapse; Stolle quickly ran out the set for a 7-5, 6-3, 3-6, 9-11, 6-4 victory. Next day, as expected, Roy Emerson polished off Chuck McKinley...
...Reese, Kolker is at home only on clay courts; Ripley smashed him 6-1, 6-1 last year on the hard surface at Penn. Benjamin, too, is largely a back-court player, though he can hit with power; his size (5'8") makes it easy for an opponent to lob...
Looking like a strange translucent bubble, the nylon dome is kept aloft by a pair of 1½-h.p. fans, is big enough (120 ft. long, 33 ft. high) for all but the most enthusiastic lob shots. Adapted from a design for use in housing radar-antenna installations, the tent was built by Birdair Structures Inc. of Buffalo, N.Y., can be rigged and inflated in several hours, packs away when not in use into a space just about the size of a pingpong table...