Word: sport
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...never too late to learn something new about sport-even for champions. Take Mrs. Tudor Gardiner who, as Tenley Albright, was twice world figure-skating champ and 1956 Olympic Gold Medal winner. Now Tenley has two young daughters, Lilla, 6, and Elin, 2, and once a week she takes them to the Skating Club of Boston, where the tykes have already shown Mom a trick or two. "It took me a while to learn that skating included running on benches, jumping up and down on the ice and dashing in and out of telephone booths," admits Tenley...
...things out, Marks sets himself up as a one-man's family - a substitute father and sometimes mother figure who talks to disturbed patients more or less like a loving Dutch uncle. He even goes so far as to bring one beautiful girl patient home to his good-sport wife...
...consul stumbles away from his wife into the bar which has harbored his deepest depressions and his most hopeless binges. There he meets a group of Mexican fascists who accuse him of spying for the Spanish Loyalists, and then shoot him moments later, half in sport...
...ingenious killing of beasts larger and more powerful was, after all, the central achievement in man's ascendancy over other forms of life. But the hunt seems early to have been less of a search for food than a heroic confrontation between man and beast, and a sport worthy of kings. Charlemagne, for instance, reportedly acquired the superlative in his name only after engaging in hand-to-hand combat with an enormous bear and, of course, winning...
...freshman season is always a disaster," Marion said when asked about the team's prospects. "Fencing is such a complicated sport that you cannot teach everything in one year. Tomorrow they will be fencing with one tenth of what they need to know...