Word: tambours
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...amateur opponent ("I didn't think he'd give me any trouble"). But in last week's match Johnson found Knox's "bloody bobbly little serve" difficult to return. Knox was deadly in putting the ball into the dedans and grille, often hitting the tambour, a jutting buttress off which the ball caroms almost parallel to the net. In three days' play, he ran through Johnson seven sets to two, became the first amateur to win the world open title since Jay Gould (grandson of the famed railroad tycoon) held it in 1914. True...
...tambour," a 1 1/2-foot projection in the far corner of the hazard side, is another device used to belabor the defender...
...male named Tambour, born of the same parents as Negrita, was found in Port-au-Prince and rushed to the First Lady. Soon he was well settled into his late sister's old routine. He was a disappointment in only one way; whereas Negrita was born black and later turned silver, Tambour remained all black...
When brisk, breezy U.S. Ambassador Stanton Griffis made his first official call on Señora Perón at her ministry last month, he met Tambour and presently suggested that the dog ought to have a mate. The Señora agreed. Griffis telephoned his New York secretary, and within 48 hours Sylvia, a six-month-old silver poodle, was on her way to Buenos Aires...
...formal presentation at the Casa Rosada last week, Sylvia was accompanied by Ambassador Griffis and his second in command, Lester Mallory. While the dogs made friends, Evita expressed her thanks and leveled a gay shaft at Grass Widower Griffis.* "Now that you have found a wife for Tambour," she smiled archly, "I shall have to find you a wife among our descamisadas...