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Word: sainta (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Southwestern Europe, it was Pelota Week. From Biarritz on the Atlantic coast to Orthez and Oloron-Sainta-Marie in the heart of the Pyrenees, Basques were playing their national game. Shepherds and schoolboys, fishermen and priests, customs inspectors and smugglers ran each other ragged as they whipped a goatskin-covered ball against any convenient wall and went through the swift gyrations of pelota, that rugged ancestor of jai alai, handball and most other court games...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bounding Basques | 8/22/1955 | See Source »

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