Word: meadow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...since Big Bill Tilden turned the trick 56 years ago has a tennis player taken three straight U.S. Open titles. But this month at Flushing Meadow, John McEnroe, 22, demolished Bjorn Borg, 25, in four sets-4-6, 6-2, 6-4, 6-3-to do just that. Looking tired and drawn after the match, and having received threats against his life, Borg announced that he was going to take a respite from tennis. "I'm going to try and do other things to keep my mind off the game. I hope that when I come back...
...obedient subjects. The queen recalls her dead husband, and a bouquet in her hands turns blood red at the memory. When the lovers walk through the woods, chlorophyll seeps into the leaves, and flowers segue from red to royal blue. Now the queen, revived in love, rides through the meadow, and the colors chorus riotously: her hair is rifle-fire red, the grass a Midas gold, the trees electric green, her horse an impossible white-and as it gallops by, its tail waves bright yellow in the new morning breeze of a storybook kingdom brought to life in the movies...
McEnroe, who displayed little of his well-publicized temper before the over-flowing Flushing Meadow stadium crowd, settled into a pattern of running around Borg's second serve and rushing net behind deep forehand approaches. Anticipating Borg's counter-punches with uncanny consistency, he cut off many potential passing shots with untouchable volleys...
...decade later, Chris Evert Lloyd is, for the fifth time, defending U.S. Open champion. At Flushing Meadow, she will have a lot of competition for the spotlight, not just from all those teen-age terrors but from the likes of defending Men's Champion John McEnroe and Bjorn Borg, who, incredibly, has yet to win the American crown after nine tries. She has long since yielded her claims to the title of "the youngest ..." to the girls in pigtails: Tracy Austin won the finals of the U.S. Open at 16; Kathy Rinaldi played at Wimbledon at 14; Andrea Jaeger...
...Forty-one families in the area, which residents dubbed "Gasoline Alley," sued Chevron for damages. Last week the oil company settled out of court for what could amount to a record $6 million -about three times the amount Exxon reportedly paid in a similar situation last year in East Meadow, N.Y. Chevron agreed to pay the afflicted residents more than twice the appraised value for their homes (or about $150,000 apiece). It also consented to pay an estimated $500,000 to cover interim relocation costs. Chevron has announced a $40 million Tank Integrity Program to avoid future mishaps...