Word: sport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sitting alone in his library, a large, comfortable room with red leather furniture and a grand piano. He likes classical music, particularly Beethoven and Wagner, and has had a small music room built beside the palace tennis court. Amin has not been able to play tennis, his favorite sport, for more than three weeks now, and he misses the exercise. Tonight he is in his casual clothes: an open-neck shirt, windbreaker, slacks and black loafers. The trip to the front has been exhausting, but he is lit up, his color high...
...matter the outcome, the world is in Australia's debt for transforming what had become a boring parody of competition into a tingling cliffhanger of sport. The brilliant designer Ben Lexcen was wrong in one respect. Before the first race of the finals, he declared, "If we can't win this time, no one can win the bloody thing." His boat has proved, once and for all, that the bloody thing is bloody winnable. - By Michael Demarest. Reported by Richard Hornik and John F. Stacks/Newport
Clare E. Martin '85, who lives in North House, said that participating in a varsity sport and holding down a job force her to do most of her studying at night North has no facilities for late night studying, she explained, adding that working in her room "can be very distracting...
...signing of one of sport's richest contracts fulfilled Bird's wish for a new agreement by Saturday, one day after the Celtics open training camp...
...major league baseball pre-1948. Starting with the segregation of the early 1900s, Jules Tygiel delves into the evolution of the Negro Leagues, ranges into the famous Robinson break-through with the Brooklyn Dodgers, and finishes up with a detailed a count of the ensuing full integration of the sport, and the bringing up of "Pumpsie" Green in 1959 to the Red Sox, the last bastion of lily whiteness...