Word: sported
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tung likes to swim, and every year millions of Chinese are urged to emulate him. Mao several times has swum the Yangtze, so last spring, 20,000 people made a mass crossing of the same river. In fact, reports the magazine China's Sport, swimming has become an "activity involving millions of all ages, and it has served as a call to hundreds of thousands to forgo swimming pools and take the plunge into the natural and rougher waters of China's many rivers and lakes as well as the open...
...well-known hazards of the currently glamorous sport of scuba diving, such as Cousteau's "rapture of the deep" and the decompression "bends," a Swedish physician has added another. It is of such deceptive simplicity that it has been generally overlooked. Pressure changes in the middle ear, reports Aviation Physiologist Claes E. G. Lundgren in the British Medical Journal, may cause dizziness so severe that the afflicted diver literally does not know which way is up and may swim to the bottom when he wants to head for the surface...
Golf may be tne only sport in the world at which a man can make $20,000 a year in competition and still have nobody but a fanatic recognize his name. Just ask Jack McGowan, Pete Brown and Miller Barber−or, for that matter, Dave Marr. Going into last week's P.G.A. tournament at Ligonier, Pa., Marr was strictly a member of the pack. He won an occasional minor tournament, almost always finished in the money (20 out of 22 times so far this year), modeled sports clothes for Jantzen on the side. He was reliable, comfortable...
...surface, Athens was calm last week: no new Prime Minister was cho sen, none was dismissed, and the Greeks, who consider politics a national sport easily as worthy of conversation as football, discussed in shops and streets the possible candidates with detached excitement. The very lack of news was impossible to ignore, for unless some resolution was found to the month-long confrontation between King Constantine and ex-Premier George Papandreou, the field lay open to military coup from the right or armed revolt from the left. Young King Constantine appeared more determined than ever to refuse Papandreou...
...ranging from cases of beer to cash, for those who land more than five fish per hour. To help anglers pass the time, other managements supply free movies, some of them erotic. Members of the Japan Anglers' Association, purists all, call the craze an "insult to the noble sport." But the police have not yet found any law to prevent it. About the only sufferers seem to be the carp, which bear the scale scars of many a near miss, and have to swim through water mixed with a dye to make it look deep. The fish are tiny...