Word: seed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lloyd made little of that afterward. Since she holds the other three major titles at the moment, a grand slam, admittedly not the calendar one, was lost too. Still her grace in defeat was heroic, in contrast to the style of the defending men's champion and top seed Jimmy Connors, who fled in a fury after his fourth-round loss to a big server from South Africa, twelfth-seeded Kevin Curren...
Connors' departure brought attention to the less familiar skills of 16th-seeded American Tim Mayotte, unseeded New Zealander Chris Lewis and Curren on one side of the bracket, while John McEnroe (No. 2 seed) and Ivan Lendl (3) fought it out rather tamely on the other. Lendl has a slight allergy and tremendous aversion to grass and actually skipped Wimbledon last year. But at 23, he appears ready to confront McEnroe, 24, on every surface from here on out. This is the next great tennis argument and they should be years settling it. Each man likes the other about...
...opponents' almost ridiculous youth confirms it. So many of them are the pigtailed picture of Patty McCormack in The Bad Seed swearing to her mother that she had not set fire to the handyman. "These kids were two years old," King says with a sigh, "when I was No. 1." They delight her even so, and she smiles as she observes, "When you're young, you think you're the center of the universe. When you're older, you realize you're just a little speck." Immediately following her worst defeat in 22 years...
...Waltke's costume signified, the decidedly un-Victorian game of tennis is visiting its past again, spending a 97th fortnight at Wimbledon. Last week, on just one typical afternoon at the old club, eighth-seeded Vitas Gerulaitis lost, chucked his racquet into the stands and refused to talk to anybody. Fifteenth-seeded Hank Pfister, able to put more top spin on his racquet, bounced it off the spongy grass court 15 ft. into the sky, across a fence and into the audience. He also lost, owing to a warning for "racquet abuse," a point's deduction...
...moment, the Soviet strategy has tipped the scales in Moscow's favor. Largely as a result of widespread devastation-which has brought high prices in the wake of shortages of labor, fuel, fertilizer and seed-Afghanistan's agriculture is fast deteriorating. According to one estimate, wheat production was five times greater in 1978 than it was last year. In the Logar province and in isolated villages around the country, entire settlements have been reduced to ghost towns...