Word: match
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prince. Despite the family's affection, there were many drawbacks to the match. Prince Philip had applied for British citizenship, but he was still technically of Greek nationality, although he had not been in that country since he was a year old. Britain was deeply involved in the Greek political picture, and the royal house of which Philip was still a member was not popular with Britain's Laborites. Elizabeth and Philip went on seeing one another, but always circumspectly. Then Elizabeth was whisked away to South Africa...
...Elizabeth's dressing table. She wrote him three times a week. By the time she got home again, Prince Philip of Greece had become plain Lieut. Mountbatten, a British subject. The U.N. and the U.S. had taken on Britain's Greek headaches. The last objection to the match seemed to have been removed. Philip proposed formally, asked King George's consent, and the King gave it heartily...
...News. Like doting maiden aunts, Britain's press rang fatuous changes on the great news. Headlines were heady with sentiment over the "love match." Austerity, coal crises, rationing and shortages faded from the news columns to make way for reports of the lovers. "Philip," announced one paper solemnly, "turned up Friday with a ring on the little finger. He usually wears it on his second finger." Even the Daily Worker seemed affected by the monarchical atmosphere. "This alliance," it proclaimed with the cold disapproval of a Romanov, "is not to our liking." While the Daily Express polled its readers...
Before the war, Bobby Locke was South Africa's best golfer and among the least popular. Once, on a golfing trip to England, Locke got mad at being kept waiting by England's haughty Henry Cotton, retaliated by playing so deliberately that the match was nearly night-foundered. But, the story goes, when Locke himself was upbraided by a fellow South African for being an hour late for dinner with an English lord, he retorted: "I am Bobby Locke...
After waiting half an hour for Britain's Royal Family to arrive for the final match, Kramer went to work on fellow Californian Tom Brown. It was not even close. Kramer's big serve, with its high and tricky bounce, his skill at the net, his brilliant passing shots were all going like clockwork. It was all over in 45 minutes: 6-1, 6-3, 6-2, but Kramer was convinced that he had put on a lackluster show. Said he afterwards: "We were both excited and nervous before the match started because there was such a long...