Word: sport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...learned a lot about life through tennis," Beren says. "I see it more as a sport, not a life." He adds, "Winning and losing are not that important to me anymore. I've learned that people are still people whether they win or lose a tennis match...
Should you decide to stay, you'll witness a sport that has probably been seen by more people in Nottingham, England, than on the entire Eastern seaboard of the United States. Players will be "bowling" the ball into batters in an attempt to perform such feats as "bowling a maiden over"--a maneuver that has no real correlation to anything in baseball other than striking a batter out without the batter losing...
...something important is that one of the minor embassy employees, who has never had any comment on his work or his personal life other than that he was "highly efficient" in the former, and "a bit invisible" in the latter, has begun to sport an carring. This upsets Horton so much that he throws up, and he appoints Savage to "persuade" the employee to get rid of the earring by threatening to fire him. In fact, the employee is not homosexual, us Horton feared, but only incredibly naive, and when Savage cleverly lures him to a gay for he sees...
Tennis at Harvard has been an added bonus for Kaufman, and she maintains her dedication to the sport. "I feel very committed to the program. It has a lot of potential," she added...
Golf is one sport that cannot usually be moved indoors. As a result, golfers grow accustomed to playing in conditions most would term abysmal. "We've gotten to the point where we're so cynical about the weather." Captain Steve Baker commented, "we just assumed we were still going to play...