Word: racketing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...triumphs established him as the most promising young U.S. player in years. A policeman's son, he was born in Richmond, Va., grew up only a few yards from a tennis court, where he started batting tennis balls around as soon as he was able to hold a racket. In 1953, a Lynchburg physician, Walter Johnson, spotted Ashe as a potentially fine player. Dr. Johnson knows his tennis talent. It was he who helped steer Althea Gibson (TIME cover...
...Hearst's New York Journal-American, James D. Horan has spent much of his 35-year newspaper career as an investigative reporter or "digger." In this labyrinthine novel, he describes the city's seamy side vividly, if repetitiously: the sticky-fingered cops who protect the numbers racket; the Mafia-type Italians in East Harlem who run it, along with sundry other unsavory businesses; and bought judges who sanction it all. With other specimens of the "inside" novel genre, this one has several characters whose real-life models are familiar -the rabble-rousing, white-hating black fanatic named...
...Beatlemania in A Hard Day's Night, sails into The Knack with the same bare-knuckled boldness but less satisfying results. The movie is always inventive and often hilarious, for Lester is not a man to let substance interfere with a sight gag. On film, the characters racket hither and yon in the fashionable New Cinema manner, but they rarely seem insecure, subtly tyrannized by their own drives, or even significantly related to one another...
...Australia's Roy Emerson, 28: London's Grass Courts Championship by default over the U.S.'s Dennis Ralston, 22, who pulled out an hour before the match because of an injured thumb that had become so swollen that "I couldn't grip the racket...
...later started his own publishing house (Wilfred Funk, Inc.). He tried his hand at light verse, drew up a list of the ten most beautiful words in the English language (dawn, hush, lullaby, murmuring, tranquil, mist, luminous, chimes, golden, melody) and the ten most overworked (okay, terrific, lousy, definitely, racket, gal, honey, swell, contact, impact'). He even compiled a canine dictionary of 204 words that every well-bred dog should understand, ranging from a basic siccum to slippers and ice cream...