Word: squashes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...body had always been magnificent and versatile. In the Olympic Games of 1912, he won third place in the modern pentathlon-the five sports, horseback riding, cross-country running, swimming, fencing, shooting. He had loved polo, squash, tennis, skeet shoots, bird shooting, game fishing, fox hunting. Always he had done these things, if not superbly, at least with a flair. His rule for taking ribbons at horse shows: "If it's a civilian horse show, turn up in dress uniform, decorations and all; if it's a military show, wear civilian habit...
...Squash will no longer be-counted for minor athletic credits, Norman W. Fradd, assistant director of Physical Education, said in an announcement made last night, removing it from the accepted list...
...sports, volley ball and squash, are in progress now. Leverett, Adams, and Kirkland, all proud bearers of perfect records, are tied for the lead in the former, but the Bunnies have played one more game than the Deacons and two more than the Gold Coasters. With only a few more days to go, squash has narrowed down to a race between Lowell and Kirkland...
Early last December he was sent to North Africa. There he learned, last week, that he had been made a lieutenant general. Spaatz has few relaxations: squash, fishing, poker, which he plays with a sometimes wild abandon, betting, according to his wife, "on anything." But at Souk-el-Spaatz, he plays less & less. His habitual tension has increased. Recently he wrote to Mrs. Spaatz: "I'm looking forward to the day when we can reoccupy our shack . . . own a boat on the Potomac and float up & down on the tide." The "shack" is the comfortable, 133-year-old home...
...they pass the plant gates. Eight and a half hours daily the moppets play, snooze, ingest assorted vitamins, watch test planes zoom by. Mothers pay 50? a day for food, Curtiss-Wright pays the overhead. Beamed one mother recently: "It's marvelous for Terry.. He eats his squash and tomato now without trouble and can even tie his shoes...