Word: racquetment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When they first hit the courts six years ago. oversized tennis racquets immediately drew the scorn and skepticism of any self respecting tennis player. But the innovation has come to corner the racquet industry as it siphons off 40 per cent of the total market sales. Promising and apparently serving up unreal results, its geriatric stigma has now disappeared...
Using a tennis racquet, a cardboard box and an overhead projector, Purcell, Gade University Professor Emeritus, demonstrated that light is transmitted in waves rather than particles, and other basic theories of physics...
After all, here he was, The Champ, playing in the finals of the Boston Open against the Harvard kid, Desaulniers, heir apparent to his squash throne, no less, and some referee was going to deny him his right to swing a racquet...
...come out, John, I'll let you serve," coaxed a coy Billie Jean King. "You can even pick your own linesman." This last promise was one her quarry couldn't resist, and out from backstage came a head-banded, curly-haired, racquet-wielding Snoopy masquerading as a mild-mannered John McEnroe. The arena was the Grand Ballroom at New York City's Waldorf-Astoria, as the Second Annual Women's Sports Foundation dinner served a sizable helping of awards and raised some $80,000 to encourage women's participation in sports. "I adore John," Billie...
...doubles matches were also academic, but this time, the racquet-women failed to win one. With two of its doubles pairs never having played together before, Harvard could not take a set from their more experienced opponents...