Word: pancho
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Psychological Difference. "Concentration" is fast becoming a sports column cliche, but it is the best word the tennis world has found to sum up the psychological difference between one finely trained, fundamentally expert player and another. Says Pancho Gonzales: "Rod is the most disciplined of them all. What I admire most about him is his determination and concentration. He just wears you down...
Dennis Ralston, Butch Buchholz and Marty Riessen all fell on the tournament's first day. Ron Holmberg, after beating South African Cliff Drysdale, blew his match with Stolle. And Pancho Gonzalez, the Old Wolf, fell apart, leading Australian Ken Rosewall 2-0 in the third set, then losing...
...mused. "Bu' oy can'ht 'it wi' im froom the byseloine. oy naid..." Newcombe here waved his hand aimlessly, as if trying to grasp an unattainable secret to break Leaver's power. And immediately after the singles match, he'll have to pair with Roche to face Laver and Pancho Gonzalez in the doubles final...
...Pancho Villa's army. "We share very few sentiments with our government," Bishop explains lightly as his men prepare to take the required rifles from a U.S. Army supply train. In 1913, this sort of activity is already anachronistic and doomed to failure. Trying to fulfill the terms of the contract, the bunch get doublecrossed. At the same time, they are caught in the vise of their own simplistic code of honor ("When you side with a man, you stay with him," Bishop says). Mapache betrays them from one side while the bounty hunters attack from another, and they...
...ROTC during the spring and summer of 1917, was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for heroism in France. Earlier, he had served in the Philippine Islands and from 1911 to 1914 took part in several expeditions against the "hostile" Moros in Mindanao. He served in Mexico with the Pancho Villa Punitive Expedition and was selected by General Pershing to command the famous Apache Indian Scouts. After his return from Mexico, he came to Harvard as Professor of Military Science and Tactics...