Word: player
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Shriver, U.S. tennis this season would be nothing but schmaltzy mixed doubles. First it was Jimmy Connors wedding his onetime Playboy playmate. Then last week, Chris Evert, long a top-ranker in women's play and once that way in Connors' court as well, wed British Davis Cup Player John Lloyd in a home-town candlelight ceremony in Fort Lauderdale. The 24-year-old queen of the base lines sounded blushingly unprofessional. Said the woman who has won Wimbledon three times and the U.S. Open four times: "This is only going to happen once...
Walker, playing at number two, led the Crimson romp in the singles with his three-set triumph over Diaz. He took the first set easily 6-2, before Diaz, a strong baseline player with a fine passing shot although no net game, struggled to get back in the match...
Kirsch will face big, bad Brad Dressler, the Yale captain, a man with a powerful serve, strong forehand and tough service return. Bob Horne lines up against Tom Cimcik, the Eli's number five. Cimcik, a classy player, has a history of breezing past easy opponents, but losing tough matches...
Faught, recently named Ivy player of the week for his four-goal effort against Yale, matched that performance by scoring two critical goals late in the first half as prelude to his pair of fourth-quarter tallies. With three and a half minutes left in the half and the Crimson holding a man advantage, the Harvard single-season goal scoring record holder broke a 5-5 tie by taking a feed from assist factory Norman Forbush and blowing it by Wildcat goalie Peter Sheehan. A few minutes later, Faught cranked one again...
...press, the place seems to be Currier House, where the show originated. The production, based on the opera by Peter Townsend of The Who, is about a youth who goes deaf, dumb, and blind after witnessing his mother's infidelity; eventually he finds his callin as a pinball player extrordinaire. It's all laden with heavy Christ symbolism...