Word: sport
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Robert McNamara's plan to streamline and modernize the nation's armed forces. Last week the efficiency-minded Secretary took another giant step: he put the ax to one of the Army's most sacred cows, one that is especially beloved by politicians who like to sport stars and eagles on short summer-training tours...
Last week demo was the sport in Indonesia, where for the second time in as many weeks a fun-loving mob-egged on by the nation's powerful Communist Party-ravaged a United States Information Service library, ostensibly in protest against the joint U.S.-Belgian rescue mission in the Congo. In Surabaya more than 1,000 jolly Javanese burst into the U.S. Cultural Center, tore down the American flag, smashed furniture, ripped up many of the library's expensive technical and scientific books, and burned it all in a roaring, heartwarming bonfire. Three days earlier, another carefully organized...
...whole thing often has the aspect of a sport it is really a lot more serious than that. The destruction of U.S.-provided libraries-in places where scientific and technical books are in extremely short supply-is a calculated act of educational self-mutilation on the part of the governments involved. As U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk said angrily last week: "Resort to riot and violence against foreign missions strikes at the heart of the system of diplomatic intercourse. Book burning is a direct affront to knowledge and a denial of the long, slow progress of mankind...
...beer, pull 21 miles of dental floss past their molars, guzzle and flush 1 billion gallons of water. The municipal corporation alone owns a physical plant worth more than $15 billion. And every facility is inadequate. No adjective is enormous enough to suggest the concentration of people, commerce, religion, sport, finance, entertainment, education, and art that is New York, the mightiest community in the History...
...Pennsylvania's Roger Penske, 27: a sweep of the first two major races in the Bahamas Speed Weeks, at Nassau's twisting, 4.5-mi. Oakes Field race course. Driving a Corvette Grand Sport, Penske averaged 95.5 m.p.h. to win the Tourist Trophy race for sports cars, switched to a Chevrolet-powered Chaparral to beat A. J. Foyt for the Governor's Cup, averaging a record 100.1 m.p.h. for the 112.5-mi. race...