Word: badminton
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...heart of the city, people work for diversions. The sparkling new Andersons-town Leisure Center won a prize as the best of its kind in the United Kingdom. Bernadette calls it "gorgeous," and 5,000 youngsters a week steam up its three swimming pools. Elizabeth plays "the badminton" there and discos on skates in the Rollerama. Children's carnivals offer another diversion. The Youth Council of Belfast sets up small amusement parks on the weekends. On a Friday evening in September the Beechmount children's carnival begins on a hill overlooking a playing field high above the city. A constable...
...Chevy Chase, Md. After his defeat, Hays filled posts in the White House and State Department under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. Of his role in trying to resolve the confrontation at Little Rock, Hays once said: "I felt like the sparrow that flew into the badminton game...
Most sexagenarians would have quietly accepted the sinecure, which carried a lifetime annual pension of $100,000. But idleness was inconceivable to the scrappy Ryder, who still does 50 push-ups before breakfast, despises losing a badminton match and has a third wife 27 years his junior. Says he: "I'm sort of a rough person. I like rough things. Concrete, steel, debris, cast-iron pipes. I always liked working, and I just couldn't get used to working for somebody else, I guess...
...divorced hero of The Winter Father must endure both the absence of his two small children during the week and the problem of entertaining them on weekends. He imagines owning an enormous building that would make life simple for fathers in his position: "A place of swimming pool, badminton and tennis courts, movie theaters, restaurants, soda fountains, batting cages, a zoo, an art gallery, a circus, aquarium, science museum, hundreds of restrooms, two always in sight, everything in the tender charge of women trained in first aid and Montessori, no uniforms, their only style warmth and cheer...
Family resemblance has confused you [May 12]. Her Majesty the Queen is accompanied by her son Prince Edward, not Prince Andrew, in the photograph taken at last month's Badminton Horse Trials...