Word: tennised
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The Soviets had scarcely finished wiping up Madison Square Garden with the N.H.L. capitalists when Pete Rozelle, czar of all he surveyed in pro football, was on the phone to the White House. "Beat them now, Mr. President," he said, "and beat them big, or they'll be muscling...
Its yellow-white leather gleamed, and you picked it up and untied the sneaker lace wound around it to keep the pocket good over the winter. The tennis ball, which had anchored the pocket since September, popped out once you put it on, but it felt good and strong after...
And you flapped the fingers together and pounded the pocket with fist, then tennis ball. Curiosity to see if "the glove still worked" and if you could "still do it" coaxed you outside and thus unofficially declared the outset of your season.
You went out to the driveway and started throwing the ball against the garage door. Sure, the snow was still lingering in the corners of the driveway, and sure, it was only a tennis ball, not the real thing with the stitches and the swishing sound it makes when you...
Harris' Perrier Survey of Fitness in America (done for the French mineral-water firm that co-sponsors the New York Marathon and other races) is based on personal interviews with 1,510 people and a telephone sample of 180 runners. The study finds that 41% of Americans get no...