Word: sport
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rest of the cover-story team provided a considerable balance of sentiment. SPORT Researcher Geraldine Kirshenbaum was a baseball fan until she was twelve, but now she'd rather go skydiving. SPORT Writer Charles Parmiter has become judiciously nonpartisan, although he has to control certain anti-Yankee tendencies. On the other hand, Senior Editor George Daniels, a sometime Little League coach, is a dyed-in-the-stripes Yankee man who can tell you about the day he saw Babe Ruth hit a home...
...that a lot of race horses could catch Gun Bow, "but they was out of breath when they got there." See SPORT, "He's a Freak." How functional form has found new curves to swing by. See ART, Unframed Beauty...
...European driver may appear to be just an exasperated fellow stuck with his underpowered four-cylinder car on an overloaded two-lane highway, but deep down inside he is Ascari lapping the pack, Rommel leading the tanks, De Gaulle thumbing his nose at the world. Driving is a sport, an intoxication, a release. It is in the blood more than in the brain, and spirit means more than skill...
...loves to hunt, but not necessarily to kill ... He does not kill for sport-only when he wants a piece of venison or a bird...
OREGON puts on a logger jubilee on the banks of the dank, dark Flushing River the likes of which hasn't graced its scented waters before. Husky lumberjacks clomp about like junior Paul Bunyans, chop through giant timber in jig time, jostle each other into the water, and sport atop towering Douglas firs...