Word: sport
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...live by rules of sense, common or otherwise. It does not make sense to worry and cry and celebrate and rejoice over the doings of men whose lives cannot possibly affect our own. But millions of us do all those things and we love it. Baseball, indeed all sport, gives us the chance to wring out our emotions, emotions that are often left embalmed by the rest of our lives...
Ruth Yates King sport, Tenn...
...that actually prides itself on hiring out autos that are up to ten years old and often look it. The network, sardonically named Rent-A-Wreck, charges only $11.95 to $14.95 a day for its standard cars, depending on location. They are mechanically sound and clean, though they may sport a dent or two. (Avis' shiny, new-model cars, by comparison, can cost up to $64 a day in some cities.) Rent-A-Wreck has 120 franchised outlets nationwide, and is adding two a week. Says Founder Dave Schwartz, a former Los Angeles used-car salesman: "You drive...
...sell the machine guns, which cost from $500 to $3,000. For better or worse, he has found 100 buyers in three years. Day, who is convinced that the U.S. faces an impending wave of terrorism, also believes that machine-gun slinging will find nationwide acceptance as a sport. "People go bowling or skiing or skydiving," he says. "This is just another thrill...
Never having attended college, the German composer shows his anti-elitism in his most popular orchestral work. Moreover, the overture came as Brahms' response to Breslau's tag for him--"the foremost composer of serious music today": the songs were about wine, women and sport. The last tune before the recapitulation, for example, is Fuchslied (Fox Hunt), played by two choppy bassoons imitating the way freshmen used to sing it. The piece ends with Gaudeamus Igitur, the most popular of student songs, probably still sung by most members of the Fly Club: "Let us rejoice when we are young...