Word: mallet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...desert. He lives without television, owns only riding boots, and eats tortillas by preference. A bilingual Anglo don to the New Mexican Hispanos, Hurd (who once rode to the hounds along the Chesapeake) long ago started a home-grown polo team with his ranch hands. Because of their roughriding, mallet-mashing style of playing, they compete with more posh teams under the name, "the San Patricio Snake Killers...
When he picks up the mallet and helmet, Britain's polo-playing Prince Philip, 42, has to take his royal lumps like anyone else. Two years ago, he broke a bone in his left ankle. Last month he fell from his pony, bruised his shoulder. In the Midhurst Town Cup semifinals, Philip, with one goal already to his credit, was hard on the attack when his left elbow was slashed by another player's loose bridle. Pausing only for a hasty bandaging, he re-entered the game and scored another goal, helping his Windsor Park team...
France's Françoise Sagan is the most famous example: at 18, she coolly chronicled how a girl grows up by driving her prospective stepmother to suicide (Bonjour Tristesse). In Le Rempart des Beguines, Belgium's Franchise Mallet-Joris, at 20, documented a listless daughter's love affair with her father's mistress. The trend may have reached a climax with The Age of Malaise, a novel about a teenage girl in Rome written by Dacia Maraini, 25. Awarded the $10,000 Formentor publishers' prize for some reason not decipherable in the book itself...
...mallet-headed a paradise clearly cries out for some kind of serpent. Obligingly, the author supplies an industrialist named McKinney, who, with unlimited cash and chicanery, sets about acquiring the whole island so that he can turn it into a kind of floating museum of early Americana...
...idea of immortalizing tombstone carving one weekend after stumbling on a weed-grown graveyard near the hamlet of Colrain, Mass. She and Neal started boning up on New England stonecutters, found that most of them had been Yankee Jacks-of-all-trades who knew how to use chisel and mallet. One stonecutter, John Stevens of Newport, R.I., set up a shop for himself in 1705 that is still in operation after being handed down through generations of stonecutters...