Word: py
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...superior power like rough sandpaper against Ken Rosewall's subtler game. The two whacked out some of the best tennis of the tournament. Then Lew Hoad, after a brief, second-set lapse, put Rosewall away, 6-2, 4-6, 7-5, 6-4. Australian visitors were hap py to underplay their pride. " I flew over 5,000 miles to see this match," laughed one fan from Down Under, "and what do I watch? The same players I see in my backyard all year long." Through all the excitement, eleven poker-faced Russians took in the matches and tried some...
France's Jean Chauvel was perturbed by Broadway's outbursts of pessimisanthro-py, e.g., Death of a Salesman, preferred the gloom of museums to the gloom of theaters and the zephyrs of chamber music to the hurricanes of opera. China's Dr. P. C. Chang thought Oscar Hammerstein's lyrics were delightfully fresh but could not pay the same compliment to the Metropolitan Opera's chorus...