Word: racketeer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...acerbic about the humiliating political strictures imposed by the Franco government, deplores the abrasive, remorseless poverty that makes even the dogs in the provinces scrawny and unlovable. Though he shares the passion of so many norteamericano writers for bullfighting, he also exposes it as a miserably corrupt racket whose only honorable figure all too often is the bull...
...From the sound of it, La Dolce Vita is alive and well in Rome. Partygoers boogalooed through the night, watched underground flicks, forked in vats of pasta, and things didn't wind up until next morning when the fathers at the next-door theological seminary complained that the racket was disturbing their Sunday services...
Goeltz sat out most of last season after being suspended from the freshman team for cutting practice. When Princeton coach John Conroy manages to coax his ace onto a tennis court, Goeltz flashes a golden racket...
...question of transition from squash to tennis arises from a difference in stroke technique. A player uses much more wrist action in swinging a squash racket and therefore undercuts his groundstroke. In tennis, the strokes are longer and more graceful. A player often puts overspin on both his forehand and backhand. Tennis strategy also necessitales a factor of restraint which is not present in squash because of the surrounding walls...
Competitive squash is a much smaller world than competitive tennis. Because it lacks prestige, relatively few star althletes play squash seriously. This is much less true in tennis. Gonzalez Sterne, and Terrell generally dominate their opponents in squash. This Spring they must add determination to their racket savvy, if they are to excel on the tennis courts...