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Word: sported (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years ago there was no Brown lacrosse team. A few Bruins did field a small, disorganized club that played a few games, but the sport wasn't recognized in Providence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lacrossemen Face Upstart Brown In Important Ivy League Contest | 4/25/1964 | See Source »

...past his peak. But over the years, he won the big races at Chamonix and Wengen and Courchevel, and when he did not win, Bud mostly crashed-because he was a one-man U.S. team trying to defeat the Austrians, French, Germans, Swiss and Italians, who always dominated the sport. Nobody ever skied faster than Werner. Some kept their feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Switzerland: The Last Race | 4/24/1964 | See Source »

...Richard H. Bertram. At 48, Florida's Dick Bertram is the Enzo Ferrari of powerboat racing. Like Ferrari, he sells luxury transportation to the well-heeled: his sleek, fiber-glass cruisers and sport fishermen cost anywhere from $9,000 to $75,000. Like Ferrari, he puts his reputation on the line on the racing circuit. And, like Ferrari, he almost always wins, in smooth water or rough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Powerboat Racing: V for Victory | 4/17/1964 | See Source »

...jaguar safari in Sarapiqui is no sport for weak knees or weak stomachs. Not for Costa Ricans are the portable refrigerators, battery-operated LP phonographs and folding beds of the Kenya set. In Sarapiqui it is man; tent, sleeping bag and insect repellent against the elements. The. jungle is so thick, even on the-trails, that it sometimes takes a machete-wieldiag hunter 20 minutes to go 100 yds., Standard safari fare is beans and rice, plus what, ever the hunter shoots for the pot-boar steaks,, perhaps, or delicate morsels of tepez-cuintle, a 25-lb. creature that claims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hunting & Fishing: Budget Safari | 4/10/1964 | See Source »

...Senators did not think it was particularly touching. Demanding an end to "the leeches who monopolize the faith and confidence of the untutored boxer," New York's Kenneth Keating called for immediate passage of a bill that would put a federal appointee in full charge of the sport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prizefighting: Sonny & Co. | 4/10/1964 | See Source »

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