Word: gung
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whole feeling of the team is changing in its attitude toward the sport in general," said another veteran. "Everyone's become much more gung-ho, too gung...
...been Director of Sports Information. Matthews does not have many winning teams among the 29 he publicizes for Harvard, and a championship football team...well, that is the dream of every "DSI," as they call Matthews's job in college sports circles. And although they are not very gung ho about things down at the Sports Information office--Matthews tells athletes not to waste time with interviews if they have school work to do, "this is not Ohio State"--beating Yale might make the easy-going Matthews even more easy-going than usual when he cleared football debris...
...News Closeup. "Danger in Sports: Paying the Price"--an examination of high school football and the risks of gung-hoism. Ch. 5, 8 p.m. 1 hour...
...neglects to mention that it was he who was one of the lethal architects of that nine-year project. Remember those pictures of the gung-ho civilian Ellsberg in 'Nam, wearing fatigues and toting...
...those who aspire to the elite "600 life list" of birders who have spent lives and fortunes spotting all the original 600 species on the A.O.U. list. As one infuriated enthusiast noted last week, "A lot of us people in the American Birding Association, which is made up of gung-ho list chasers as opposed to sedentary bathrobe birders, are fighting this. We're going to make up our own list based on recognizable field markings, not on with whom the birds happen to mate. The Baltimore oriole lives...