Word: tennised
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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At the funeral the Rockefellers gathered, J.D.R. Jr. and five handsome young men wearing identical Homburg hats and an identical stamp. J.D.R. Jr. was bringing the next generation along, teaching them about thrift and the Bible-but letting them play tennis on Sundays. The brothers took their places in the...
The users' plan of the Western powers seemed truly to catch Nasser unawares. "Instead of continuing the game," the tennis-playing young dictator complained to a friend, "Eden has picked up the ball and walked off the court." In uncharacteristic haste Nasser ordered his Washington ambassador to protest to...
The shy, solemn Australian looked beaten before he started. Even the crowd at Long Island's West Side Tennis Club this week figured that Ken Rosewall was a sure loser. He had done well to get to the finals of the U.S. Men's Singles championships, but now...
Now he began to produce the brand of tennis that had made him a gallery favorite all week long. In the quarter-finals the luck of the draw had sent him against quick-tempered Dick Savitt, 29, back in the big time after a four-year layoff. And Savitt had...
Somehow, in an era when tennis has quickened into a slam-bang game of brief, explosive rallies. Ken Rosewall nourishes an old-fashioned taste for the back court, for stylish strokes, for careful strategy worked out through a long, exciting exchange of shots. Such tactics seldom stand a chance against...