Word: sport
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...game has been accumulating technicalities for nine centuries, its rules are almost impossibly intricate. "I've been playing this game for about six years," Pell commented, "and I've never ever successfully explained it to anyone." There are elements of squash, badminton, and even horseshoes mixed into the sport. Fortunately, someone once adapted the game in a simpler court and devised simpler rules. The result was lawn tennis...
...Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick stepped to the microphone in St. Petersburg, Fla., and announced: "Charles Dillon Stengel has been unanimously elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame." Observed Casey, who retired last summer at 75 as manager of one of the most awful teams in the history of the sport: "Amazin...
...disappeared along with canned dinners and roasted marshmallows, the sightseeing variety hopped back in their buggies, played follow-the-leader across the moonlit dunes un til 4 a.m. Said one enthusiast: "It is simply beautiful out there. In the moonlight, the sand looks as white as snow." If the sport exhilarates Californians, it absolutely floors foreigners. Wrote a senior Japanese naval officer after seeing the Las Vegas Strip, the Grand Canyon and Disneyland: "The U.S. is fine, but the dune buggies were fantastic-the highlight of our trip...
When it rains, dog owners across the country are putting paws in rubber boots. If it snows, dogs emerge swaddled in thick, furry coats with even thicker sweaters. And for just padding around the house, some pooches sport ermine-tail coats that run up to $1,000. Dean White, executive director of the Institute for Human-Animal Relationship, calculates that U.S. dog fanciers spent no less than $450 million on dog accessories last year. And the figure is likely to mount higher, if the Canine Couture show held at Manhattan's Barbetta Restaurant last week is any indication...
Some people think squash is only a vegetable. To 250,000 Americans, most of whom should be denied possession of such information for their own good, squash is also a game played on an enclosed court with rackets and a rocklike India-rubber ball. Enthusiasts talk about the sport's "therapeutic values," particularly as a cure for hangover; one U.S. Navy skipper thinks so much of it as a conditioner that he has had a court in stalled on his submarine tender. The truth is that squash is onomatopoetic: anybody who lets himself get locked into...