Word: sported
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...know where those West German researchers should begin looking for the 7.000 paper clips that just "plain disappeared." They may have been thrown or dropped down the backs or, preferably, the fronts of the dresses of office girls. In this new and interesting sport, I claim the record: 43 on one girl in one afternoon...
...Shaw ever played the "inscrutable" game, he might have looked like that indeed, bending over the plate in knickers and Norfolk jacket and slamming line drives all over the field. The thought amused English Actor Bramwell Fletcher, 60, as he assembled his evening of Shavian sport, The Bernard Shaw Story, a one-man show now playing in Manhattan. Fletcher gleaned a few lines from Shaw's 1925 essay "This Baseball Madness," and added them to his impersonation. Wielding his unlikely prop, Fletcher-Shaw muses: "As far as I can grasp it, baseball combines the best features of primitive cricket...
...Empire State Building-or even stop bullets with his chest. But it is sheer nonsense to try to convince the practitioners and patrons of pro football that Jimmy Brown is an ordinary mortal. After nine seasons in the league, Brown is regarded as a genuine phenomenon in a sport that shares the language ("blitz," "bullet," "bomb") of war. Pro football's stars are the samurai of sport-immensely skilled, brutally tough, corrosively honest mercenaries who respect each other almost as much as they respect themselves. In the critical company of his peers, the Baltimore Colts' Johnny Unitas...
Swimming, which continues year-round has the largest participation of any sport at the 'Cliffe, according to Mary M. Paget, coordinator of sports. The program, which offers classes from beginning swimming to senior life saving to synchronized swimming, involves over one-half of the undergraduate body...
Peters, an efficient hurler on three days' rest, throws a wicked fastball, curve, slider, and change-up. During his senior year, he walked only four batters in 54 innings. He also played football and basketball in high school, but at Harvard the only sport he is thinking about right now is freshman baseball...