Word: sport
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Skiers in action? Not at all. The men and women on the slopes were not moving on skis. Their equipment consisted of 8-ft.-long, two-passenger snowmobiles, and their forward thrust came from putt-putting, 7-15-h.p. lawnmower-type engines. The name of the sport is snowmobiling, or snowcatting, and it has become an even faster growing winter sport than skiing itself. Three years ago, there were 15,000 snowmobiles in the U.S.; today there are nearly 200,000. There is even a U.S. Snowmobile Association in Eagle River, Wis., which helps local clubs organize weekend rallies (more...
Becoming a Christian may be primarily an act of commitment and faith, but it also means joining a lifelong sport with its own peculiar rules for success...
...Sport on trumpet: Aggressive, outgoing, he is the orchestra's resident swinger, a locker-room pundit, a connoisseur of poker, baseball and off-color jokes. To meet the physical demands of his instrument, he lifts weights. > The Tout on trombone: He lifts martinis. A wheeler-dealer, he is forever organizing parties and picnics, likes to sit in on jam sessions at the local jazz club...
...thrown together. There are no men around except for a few janitors and stray faculty. Of course there are young men about on Friday and Saturday nights, and for Tuesday night coffee, Wednesday afternoon tea and Sunday noon dinner; but they hardly cause a stir. They always wear easy sport coats and speak infrequently and quietly. Dates without sport coats do not come out to Wellesley for dinner...
This is the time for the Harvard basketball team to bounce back, if it is ever going to bounce back. The squad opens a four-game home stand tonight in a sport where the home court provides a tremendous advantage. And the boys come home off their best game in a long time -- they led Princeton by four at the half before running out of life and losing by seven last Saturday night...