Word: morea
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...point Smith served a clean ace only to have a Rumanian linesman call it out. Another time a linesman belatedly ruled that an obviously bad Tiriac serve was out-only after Smith had whipped the return past the Rumanian. The calls became so bad that the referee, Enrique Morea of Argentina, took the unprecedented step of expelling one of the linesmen. He would probably have liked to include most of the stadium. The fans repeatedly ignored pleas for "liniste" (silence), and cheered wildly at every American mistake. When the small American section offered up cheers, the rest of the gallery...