Word: trailingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Patty Wen split sets, taking the second convincingly, 6-2, and the women in white seemed to be on the trail of another victory...
...volume that should benefit from the vast store of recent revisionist views, there are unpardonable omissions. Davis tells at length the tragedy of the Indians of the East, uprooted and sent West on the Trail of Tears. But in the next section, Colleague David Herbert Donald (who writes crisply on the Civil War) reduces the entire Indian conflict in the West to one paragraph. Americans of Puerto Rican or Mexican origin are given hardly a nod, and then a misguided one: the book asserts that Cesar Chavez's United Farm Workers movement "declined...
...resolution, blamed defeat on the good old boy image in Southern life. The good old boy, she said, stubbornly fought against change, opposing to the last women's right to vote and black civil rights. As she spoke in the Florida senate of "the same old Southern trail which leads nowhere," sardonic cheering broke out in the gallery among ERA opponents, who were dressed in red. Pro-ERA women, dressed in green, were silent. Said Wilson: "I'm embarrassed for the South...
...started out on his trail-blazing round by clipping his ball with a sand wedge as cleanly as a dandelion head and then sinking a tap-in for par. On the third hole he had "an unreal par," punching a shot from overarching tree limbs while down on his knees...
...with his racquet cover on to make swinging more difficult. Removing the cover, he stroked another 200 balls before loosening up his shoulder with 25 practice serves. Then he limbered up his legs-already toughened by twice-weekly circuits of a 4½-mile-long cross-country ski trail-with 100 or so turns of a jump rope. Finally he took to the court for several brisk sets of tennis. Still, though he is as hard as a spike at 6 ft., 170 Ibs., the champ was not satisfied. "My return of serve is out the window...