Word: outdoor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...youngster grew up in a rugged, outdoor life, its setting the lovely, wooded country of rolling hills known in Kentucky as the "Pennyr'y'l." "I went barefooted," Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. has written, ''hunted, trapped, fished, swam, canoed, raised chickens, fought roosters, rode five miles daily for the mail, trained dogs, did odd farm jobs, learned not to eat green persimmons and occasionally walked eight miles to Munfordville to broaden my horizon by seeing the train come in, learning the fine points of horse trading or listening to learned legal and political discussion on County...
King Gustaf of Sweden, 86, who has played tennis indoors two or three times a week all winter, celebrated his new title as Sweden's longest-reigning monarch (37 years, 3 months, 24 days) by arranging an outdoor match at Drottningholm Castle...
With his squad increased to 44 men, Coach Floyd Stahl opened the spring's first outdoor baseball practice this week on the Freshman diamond. Late Tuesday afternoon an A team lineup downed a B team, 5-3, in an inter-squad practice game. Jack Wallace and Dick Wholley each pitched two complete innings, facing both teams...
...opinion of the Intramural basketball director, Adolph Samborski, this tournament has been "one of the best yet." Samborski plans to begin another such contest soon, and to continue intramural basketball into next term and until outdoor spring athletics begin...
...camp's tall, grey-haired commander, Colonel William A. Holden, knew for the first time that 25 prisoners, all ardent Nazis, had escaped under his nose. Guards soon discovered camouflaged holes in the fence. Then, two days after the break, they discovered a tunnel which opened in an outdoor coal shed, led 200 feet to the bank of a deep irrigation canal...