Word: walleted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Money Player is scandalous. When he was not involved in grand or petty larceny, the self-styled "Bad Boy of Table Tennis" could fill his wallet and his mouth by legitimate means. At his peak, Reisman was the best hard-racket man in the world. Today, at 44, he can be beaten only by players using trick spins off the modern soft-sponge paddle. As the champ says, his kind of Ping Pong is entirely unlike the metronomic rec-room game familiar to most Americans. World-class players can propel the ball at speeds exceeding 100 m.p.h.; facing them across...
...like gray suits and regimental ties, is approved by the company. In his wallet Slocum carries a coded list of the names of 23 girls-the interchangeable inhabitants of his third world. Joylessly he fornicates. He finds "close relationships suffocating." He warns: "A friend in need is no friend of mine...
...planning to take a shower today at the Indoor Athletic Building you'd better bring your own towel. Either that or buy a $3 wallet-size towel card that will entitle you to the use of the Harvard towel after showering during the term...
...aware of it when a colleague who made a large number of house calls complained that he suffered from leg pains while sitting in the confining bucket seat of his sports car. Gould could find no obvious cause of the discomfort but noticed that the doctor carried a bulging wallet in his hip pocket. He speculated that the wallet might be pressing against the sciatic nerve and suggested that the physician remove it. When he did, his pain disappeared. Gould's theory was confirmed when he developed the same ailment. Golfer Gould's habit of carrying golf balls...
...posed for his picture, the President went through his wallet and tossed something into a wastebasket: it was his draft card, which he had carried throughout...