Word: pelled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Louis Bailey didn't even have time to step off the court before he and Haven Pell, a Harvard junior, faced off in doubles against the Princeton recquetmen. A wild rebound hit Pell in the eye early in the first game, but Bailey was able to lead nearly singlehandedly and crush Princeton, 41-29, under a new scoring system introduced halfway through the match...
...limited appeal of the game, Pell explained yesterday, is primarily due to the rarity of courts in the U.S. Court tennis originated in French monasteries in the 11th century and was first played in an open courtyard. As a result, the court, now moved indoors, still contains a clutter of galleries, penthouses, doors, and windows all important to the scoring of the game...
...player can often bounce a shot off an angled wall to give a hit that is almost impossible to return, Pell explained yesterday. In addition, a skillful server may be able to aim the cloth bail into one of several openings to ring a bell and give an extra point...
Since the game has been accumulating technicalities for nine centuries, its rules are almost impossibly intricate. "I've been playing this game for about six years," Pell commented, "and I've never ever successfully explained it to anyone." There are elements of squash, badminton, and even horseshoes mixed into the sport. Fortunately, someone once adapted the game in a simpler court and devised simpler rules. The result was lawn tennis...
...Golden Bridge. Rhode Island's Claiborne Pell was dubious about the wisdom of bombing the North, wanted to know "where in history do we find other examples of where bombing has made people more willing to come to the negotiating table?" Nowhere, said Taylor. "We have never had a situation like this," he observed. "You recall in World War II it was fight to the end or be destroyed, and many people preferred to be destroyed rather than to accept unconditional surrender. Here we are not doing that at all. We are constantly pointing out the better life that...