Word: racquet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...start with, Denise Thal has finally graduated. Radcliffe's outstanding tennis player for the last four years, Thal will attend Oxford this fall on a Rhodes Scholarship along with another former racquet queen, Lissa Muscatine...
...boss was at Camp David, he played tennis on the White House court in the middle of the afternoon. Returning to his office, he sat down at his desk in his tennis gear. He buzzed for the White House photographer. When the cameraman arrived, Brzezinski shouldered his tennis racquet and asked that a portrait be made of this extraordinary moment in the life of a presidential aide...
...hrer in his dank bunkers with their mosquitoes and their fanged names-"Werewolf," "Wolfs Lair." Irving describes Hitler's medications and mashed-apple breakfasts, and offers a little touch of comedy when a hapless secretary blunders into a war conference wearing shorts and carrying a tennis racquet...
Little wonder that he is ranked No. 1. During practice sessions last week, he hit 100 forehand and 100 backhand shots-all with his racquet cover on to make swinging more difficult. Removing the cover, he stroked another 200 balls before loosening up his shoulder with 25 practice serves. Then he limbered up his legs-already toughened by twice-weekly circuits of a 4½-mile-long cross-country ski trail-with 100 or so turns of a jump rope. Finally he took to the court for several brisk sets of tennis. Still, though he is as hard...
...ailments of the Super-Seniors is as celebrated as that of L. Roe Campbell, 77, secretary-treasurer of the organization, who three years ago faced surgery to lock his right wrist in place. Undaunted, Campbell arrived at the hospital on the day of the operation carrying a tennis racquet. Instructing the surgeon to watch closely, he held the racquet in an Eastern forehand grip. "Lock the wrist just so," he ordered. Campbell's forehand, opponents complain, has never been more effective...