Word: slams
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...mind turns to the wooden frames he used to win four Grand Slam tournaments, starting with the Australian Open 50 years ago, when he beat his mate Neale Fraser on grass in the final. "I can show you," he says, rising from his dining table and disappearing into another part of his Brisbane home. Though 70 and with two new hips, he moves lightly, returning moments later with a battered racquet. Its head is small by today's standards, but it feels heavy and unwieldy. Cooper's big break in the '57 Open was Fraser upsetting Lew Hoad...
Harvard’s Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) made unionization for the guards one of its primary focuses this year, according to Adaner Usmani ’08, a SLAM member...
Tennis great Billie Jean King won 12 Grand Slam singles titles...
...Russian Ambassador to Canada, Georgiy Mamedov, attempted to brush off the allegations without directly denying them. "From my unenlightened position, this case is far from a slam dunk," he told CBC Newsworld. "I don't see anything that pins him to our door." Mamedov noted that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police had recently rounded up 70 alleged Mafia kingpins and underlings in Montreal and speculated that Hampel might be a mobster. "We're not in the cold-war mode any longer, so I don't see any secrets that would be so important as to send some kind of illegal...
...summer camp, the physically underdeveloped freshman drew his coaches in with his disposition.“He was just such a great kid,” Harvard coach Tim Murphy says. “He was a high, high academic kid…super high character, slam dunk in admissions.”While his academic abilities and moral fiber landed him a spot on the team, it was Fernandez’s work ethic that helped him transform into the anchor of the Crimson’s offensive line in only a year, much to the pleasant surprise...