Word: sport
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, the ancient association of maritime towns on the southeast coast of England, Sir Robert may now receive 19-gun salutes at sea, as well as claim any wrecks and "fishes royal"-whales and the like-found around his new bailiwick. He may also sport the gold-encrusted admiral's uniform that goes with the job, but that was one part he didn't care for much. "Sir Winston always enjoyed dressing up," smiled Sir Robert. "I hate...
...their only important enemy. Passenger pigeons were good to eat, fun for sport shooting, and almost entirely salable: their dried gizzards were thought to cure gallstones; their powdered stomachs were a nostrum for dysentery; and their feathers were in great demand for use as ticking. During the 1870s, when the slaughter reached its peak, hard-working hunters could net 15,000 birds in a single day-at a market value of $1,250. News of a nesting was spread by telegraph; hunters came from miles around, and the pigeons were trapped, bludgeoned or shot (a single shotgun blast once brought...
...army (plus 100,000 militia reserves) equipped with the best of everything Russian, including supersonic MIG-21s based outside of Havana. They also face Raul Castro, who used to be quite a guerrilla fighter himself but now heads the counterinsurgency operations and treats it as rather a sport...
With the opening of the 1965 season only a week or so away, that kind of news is hardly what hunters want to hear. Worse yet, the duck that has been hardest hit, say experts of the U.S. Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife, has been the hunter's favorite: the big. lumbering and noisy mallard, which normally fills more than half of the Midwestern hunter's bag. Mallard breeding is at an alltime low; this year alone, hatchings fell 25% in the U.S., 35% in Canada. Now, as migration to winter grounds in the Gulf states begins...
...blue-and-white bus screeched to a stop outside Houston's Astrodome, with its cargo of the hottest - and angriest - team in sport. "C'mon, dammit!" yelled Manager Herman Franks. "Go get 'em! Sic 'em! Sic 'em!" The San Francisco Giants leaped to their feet and dashed for the door. " Kill!" screamed Outfielder Len Gabrielson "Kill! Kill! Kill!" It sounded pretty funny for a base ball team. But the Houston Astros learned to believe it. The Giants scored a run in the fourth inning, another in the fifth - and with the score tied...