Word: players
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...contrary to Abdullah's, the man who serves two kings replied: "I am a British subject. I would have no alternative but to resign my command." Last week the British hoped that Glubb would not be forced on to the horns of that dilemma. If the little chess player's ambitions run away with him, say the British, they will immediately withdraw their subsidy, officers, Glubb and all, and cut off supplies...
...story of one Serafim, a tuba player whose booming at local Sunday concerts gave him an audience for miles around. His hearers were surprised, runs the chorus, when...
...considers Jean Borotra the game's greatest showman and most expert faker. The best player: Don Budge, who had "no subtlety, no finesse, little grace and practically no variety to his game, but for hitting power...
...dislike is Big Jake Kramer, whose disrespect for ex-greats is "apparently quite typical of modern youth in many fields." (Kramer says that Tilden dislikes him because, when Jake was 17, he blasted Tilden off the court in a practice match.) Tilden rates Bobby Riggs today's best player...
...could hardly be called a satisfactory season, not by any criterion. And, like every losing team, this one was afflicted with rumors of dissension in the ranks, or "player revolt." This time, perhaps, they weren't all rumors...