Word: sport
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...King. Charles himself was besieged by inquiring photographers a few days later when he was walking one of his Labradors. Said the Prince, when asked about a possible betrothal: "You will find out soon enough." With that, Britain's latest national pastime - the hot-eyed, anything-but-courtly sport of Charlie watching - reached a fever pitch...
Woolf scribbled as fluently as she talked, and almost as fast. Letter writing for her was a compulsion, a sport and an antidote to solitude, but it was also a matter of principle. It was a way of cherishing friendships, with all the sacred personal values that friendships implied in Bloomsbury. "Life would split asunder without letters," she maintained in Jacob 's Room. Her massive correspondence shows her weaving a variegated web to hold it together. She pours out affection and admiration to her sister, Vanessa Bell, whom she wonderfully characterizes as a mixture of pagan goddess and Moll...
Some athletes train hard for many years to achieve excellence in a particular sport. Other athletes are naturals, like the Harvard water polo team's goalie, Rich Reid...
...career reads like the dream of many non-athletes or retired jocks. Less than a year after picking up the sport, Reid--never a competitive swimmer or varsity athlete--has established himself as the aquamen's starting goaltender, received second team All-New England honors, and gained the confidence of his teammates. They showed that confidence last week by voting him next year's co-captain. No longer on the sidelines, Reid is now known as The Wall...
Still, Reid agreed to try water polo, which at the time was only a club sport. Starting in late January, he worked with the team and developed a beginner's feel for the game...