Word: sport
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...since-a good thing, too, because it might otherwise not even exist today. Old-fashioned "pig pile" football was a brutal way to spend an afternoon: the casualty toll for the 1905 season alone was 18 deaths and 149 serious injuries, and President Theodore Roosevelt talked about abolishing the sport. The forward pass opened up the game and made it safer. Massed defenses, designed only to stop a crunching ground attack, swiftly became obsolete as more and more teams included the pass among the weapons in their arsenals. Still, brilliant passers, brilliant receivers-and brilliant passing combinations-were...
...power struggle had little to do with the pleasures of life learned from the Moors. Bullfighting became a sport shared by all the populace, and even an elementary form of baseball emerged. The cult of courtly love crossed the Pyrenees, and was adopted by Moorish lords, who in song and painting boasted of their prowess, both as warriors and lovers. Mudéjar art, produced by Moslems living under Christian rule, flourished. So did medicine and many of Spain's great universities date from this fruitful period. When in 1492, the year Columbus discovered the New World, the last...
There's good reason for predicting Harvard will finish last in the final regular meet of the year. The harriers sport an unconvincing 3-4 record. No one except sophomores Doug Hardin and Tim McLoone has really lived up to pre-season expectations. And injuries to key men continue to hurt the squad...
Today, well over 1,000 falconers in the Western world still practice the ancient sport, and in parts of Asia and Africa it is still a basic means of gathering food. The eagles are the biggest (up to 15 lbs.) and most powerful birds of prey. A brace of trained golden eagles accounted for 32 foxes and 18 wolves in one recent hunting season in the Soviet Union; even rugged mountain sheep and full-grown deer fall to their claws...
...London slums where she shares a flat with a sluttish violinist, Georgy discovers that sex is mostly a spectator sport. "You just missed being beautiful," mocks her roommate's modcap beau (Alan Bates). When the violinist gets pregnant, the mod marries her, and Georgy sticks around to cook, clean, clown, care for the baby, and light the slow-burning fires of infidelity. The emergence of Georgy is essentially a souped-up Cinderella tale, sometimes preposterous, always sentimental, but occasionally human and hilarious too. Plumpish birds who nest alone on Saturday nights will cherish its pathos, and others will respect...