Word: racquetment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...squad is currently boning up for its Southern trip, which begins this Friday. Coach Corey Wynn's team will play six matches during the week in Virginia and North Carolina, against The Country Club of Virginia, The Westwood Racquet Club (Va.), Mary Baldwin College, Virginia Polytechnical Institute, Davidson College (N.C.), and the University of North Carolina-Greensboro...
Desaulniers's status really comes as no surprise, though. I mean, if you played with a racquet instead of a rattle in your crib you'd probably be in the top ten as well...
...Desaulniers is more than just the best squash player at Harvard, a title he will no doubt hold for the next three years. He's also the best collegiate racquetman in North America, the best amateur softball player in his native Canada, and according to Racquet Magazine, which is to squash what The New Yorker is to prep school, the eighth best hardball player in the world...
Sarah Mleczko's victory over Becky Chase of Williams resembled the Coop during the first week of classes--plenty of hard-charging, unorthodox action and frequent collisions. Mleczko hustled and dove amidst the oft-tossed racquet of Chase to win 10-15, 16-15, 16-15, 15-17, to notch the other Crimson decision...
...These precise odds, based on actuarial tables and clinical data stored away in the computer's memory banks, were just a fraction above those for the average white woman in the 30-to-34-year age group. Why was this healthy, five-times-a-week tennis and racquet ball enthusiast a slightly higher risk? Because, explained the computer, she sometimes drank, smoked cigarettes and, most risky of all, did not always buckle up her seat belt while driving. "If you make all the possible reductions in your risk factors," she was told, "you will then have the same risk...