Word: racquetment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there. The Dorado Hilton's owners, International Investment Co., got a promise of a $500,000 loan from the Puerto Rican government to help refurbish the hotel; they hope to reopen it in December. In addition, the government plans to buy San Juan's exclusive but ailing Racquet Club Hotel for $4,500,000 and turn part of it into a hotel school. El Convento Hotel is $4,000,000 in debt and faces a grim future...
...Racquet sports-squash and indoor tennis courts are needed to relieve overcrowding...
...hero. Joe Cavanagh started the mystique by announcing that he would bypass pro hockey next year for the long-range advantages of a B.C. Law School degree. Then came the you-wouldn't-believe-it story of a ninth-grader waiting for a basketball game, picking up a tennis racquet for the first time, catching the coach's eye, and playing for the state champion varsity the next spring. By the end of the interview, the reporter was asking coach Jack Barnaby if Joe couldn't beat Rod Laver if he set his mind on tennis...
...teaching his players percentage tennis. "It takes two to make good teaching, a teacher and a pupil, and that's why Harvard tennis is so good. All of these guys are legitimate members of the academic community: they'd be here even if they had never seen a racquet. Berner is a concert violinist," he added...
...match at number one between Palmer Page and Peter Briggs was marred by continuous arguments over let calls. Tempers reached their peak when, at 4-4 of a five-point set of the second game, Page in returning a shot hit Briggs square in the mouth with his racquet...