Word: racquet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...another sort-of-racquet sport, the Harvard table tennis team swept past both Yale and Brown, 6-0, to remain undefeated and in first place in the New England table tennis division...
...moving," the author was warned, "the timekeeper, if he got in there; a handyman sent in to check the ring posts; anybody. And as for a writer, those guys'd smack a writer on the beak just to see what would happen." Plimpton sparred without disaster at the Racquet Club and studied a boxing manual he found in the library there, dated 1807. In time. Brown took loudly to calling Plimpton a "tiger," an example of untruth in advertising...
Desaulniers said he was "a little sleepy" at the beginning of his match and made a lot of "simple racquet errors." "I made the kind of errors you make when you're not as hyped up as you should be," he added...
...tournament begins today, as the 16 lowest-ranked competiters vie for four spots. The four surviving players compete with 12 top-ranked racquet-wielders Friday in the quarterfinals. The semifinals will be held Saturday, and the action on Sunday will decide the tournament victor...
...musical family: his wife is a professional violist, one of his sons a pianist who also happens to practice law, the other son a flautist who is studying composition at Stanford. Birnbaum himself admits to playing the piano "badly." Can he play a stringed instrument? "Only a tennis racquet," says Birnbaum solemnly, "but I like fiddling with words...