Word: badminton
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This team is appreciated far too little. "Squash," you scoff, "Big deal, hitting a little ball around a square room with a glorified badminton racquet...
DIED. Henry Hugh Arthur FitzRoy Somerset, 83, tenth Duke of Beaufort and, from 1936 to 1978, Master of the Horse, third-ranking post in the royal household; after a heart attack; in Badminton, England. The Duke followed his pack of hounds for more than 70 years and once estimated that he had spent 4,000 days in the saddle pursuing foxes. He defended his passion by saying, "Hunting is the only thing that draws this country together-apart from...
...NOTEBOOK Bator played freshman squash and has managed the team the past three years, so he is another four year yet Jackson is a three time Gold metal winner for badminton in the Pan American Games John Dinneen had beaten his opponent Jett Kahle twice before, in his days at Deerfield against Choate...
...garden (among his favorite authors: Hermann Hesse, Morris West and Mexico's Carlos Fuentes), listening to music (Mozart and Mexican romantics like Agustin Lara), or playing dominoes. Every two or three weeks he travels to his family's country home where he enjoys swimming, badminton and walking. He keeps in shape by doing calisthenics every day; he also jogs. He admits to a mild passion for soccer, but rarely attends matches at Mexico's huge national stadium. His tastes in food are simple: for dinner he may eat a plate of fruit or quesadilla (tortilla and cheese...
Royalty is bound by snoblesse oblige to obey the tenets of U and non-U, the sacred set of English rules that separates upper class from lower, proper from gauche. Lately the House of Windsor has been demonstrating both sides of U usage. At Badminton competing for the Whitbread Trophy, Princess Anne's horse Stevie B was decidedly non-U as he made a shambles of a jump and a splash of his royal rider. Both walked away safely, everything dampened but their spirits. Meanwhile, Fleet Street speculated that Princess Margaret would marry an Old Eton ian and wealthy...