Word: sport
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...British decision was praiseworthy, and even necessary, for a sport that too long has treated its best players - the pros - as second-class citizens, while allowing less talented "shama-teurs" to live lives of leisure on their expense accounts. The move was courageous, too. Only two of the other 83 member countries in the International Lawn Tennis Federation - Canada and New Zealand - have offered any real as surance of support...
...emphasis on athletics hard to deny-especially since President Ralph Waldo Emerson Jones, 63, doubles as the college baseball coach. Since World War II, Jones' teams have won 463 games and lost only 79 in the mostly Negro Southwestern Athletic Conference. But Grambling's big sport is football. It has 20 alumni on the pro rosters this year -more than any school except Notre Dame-including All-Pro Defensive End Willie Davis of the Green Bay Packers and the Kansas City Chiefs' defensive tackle, Junious ("Buck") Buchanan, an A.F.L. All-Star...
...York where they don't know a soul or at a Saturday night party in Huvelle's suite where the dance floor is filled with track types. They are five unassuming guys who train diligently, work for their dates, and share an unaggressive, unselfish attitude toward a sport they enjoy...
...Though the boys throw stones at the frogs in sport," wrote an ancient Greek poet," the frogs do not die in sport but in earnest." The Barrow gang -Bonnie and Clyde, his brother Buck and wife Blanche, their goofy, moonfaced driver, C. W. Moss-proves the truth of that maxim with its targets. At first, the shots are scattered in the air, like careless shouts. Then one lands point-blank in the face of a bank clerk. Blood hurts onto the screen, and from that instant, the audience is torn between horror and glee...
Find the right sport to hang a fragile abstract painting (18 x 18) against a wall, out of direct sunlight, not in a dining hall. It must be in a Harvard building, in a secure public place, other than the Carpenter Center Auditorium or Student Lounge at William James. Suitable prize. Henry Berg. x2378...