Word: sport
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Injuries to team members so far have been slight, but this gentlemen's sport has had its share of fatalities. When a thousand pounds of horse and rider are accelerating at ten feet per second per second, contact tends to be unpleasant...
Winthrop edged out Dunster for first place in hockey--the only major winter sport now completed. The Lions also lead in "A" squash, while Lowell had held on to first in the "B" division...
House volleyball, which got under way last week, has been converted from a minor to a major sport--a first place finish will bring 100 points this year. In spring sports, tennis has been dropped from a major to a minor sport, worth only 50 points for first place...
...towns and frontiers have also given the American nature another aspect. We live closer together and yet farther apart. Americans live more to the square mile than ever before, and yet are more reluctant to go next door to ask for a bottle of milk. Football is favorite national sport, because it gives us the sense of missing community experience, but on the subways everyone looks at the ceiling. We delight in togetherness on occasions, but shy away from each other the rest of the time. Thus, the cities have not increased the sense of community that animated the frontier...
...looked like a refugee from a Ma and Pa Kettle movie. Sporting a straw hat, brown shoes, freckles, and $4 straw suitcase, he walked out of Commerce, Okla., and into the pin-striped uniform of the New York Yankees. Now, 18 seasons and 2,401 games later, Mickey Mantle put on a $155 pair of black alligator shoes, slipped into a $150 plaid sport jacket, and announced that he was retiring from baseball...