Word: palmed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...originated in France during the late 1400s, migrated to England and Ireland in the 19th century and arrived in the U.S. in the 1860s. The game's popularity has waxed and waned over the years, but it is once again finding a serious audience. The U.S. Croquet Association, in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., boasts that sales of high-quality mallets and sets have doubled in the past three years, while the number of croquet clubs has grown from five in 1977 to over 300 this year. More people are buying backyard sets, and public courts are springing up in Tulsa...
Although at its most watchable the game is played in a Gatsbyesque setting in the wealthy enclaves of Palm Beach, Newport and the Hamptons, some blue collar is beginning to poke through the white. Many of the sport's ranked players trained on public courts; most of them work for a living and pay their own way to competitions around the world. At the vineyards' tournament, Dublin's Williams, a musician and graphics designer, was defeated by Debbie Cornelius, a secretary from England who had played a dairy farmer and an engineer. Players in Central Park included a bar owner...
Much of the money covers the upkeep on his three Pharaonic homes. The annual maintenance for Trump's 45-room spread in Greenwich, Conn., comes to an estimated $400,000. His Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., costs about $1 million a year to run. His allowance will also have to cover $650,000 in annual support payments for his estranged wife Ivana and their three children. Exempted from the budget is Trump's fancy transportation, which is up for sale: his $30 million yacht, the 282-ft. Trump Princess (he says he wants $115 million...
South Central Los Angeles looks a lot like the rest of the city -- smog- filtered sunlight, palm trees, pastel-colored stucco apartments. It doesn't look like a ghetto. The gang writing on cement walls, criminal samizdat that cops read for news of a planned attack with the expert alacrity of CIA cryptologists, is fastidiously printed; it bears little resemblance to the loopy graffiti of New York City...
...Trump Shuttle airline, but his timing is unlucky. Reason: the rival Pan Am shuttle is up for sale as well. Because the Trump Shuttle has failed to dominate the market as he had hoped, Trump is unlikely to sell it at a profit. And real-estate agents in Palm Beach say Trump has been offering Mar-a-Lago, his 118-room Palm Beach estate, for an asking price of $30 million...