Word: sported
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this crazy "war" goes on, in the name of sport, because the sporting-goods, beer and motel interests encourage the ignorant male ego to drive into the countryside and pick off our wild birds as they rise from nests at dawn...
Founders of the organization hope that in addition to spreading the karate (pronounced kah-RA-tay) discipline, they will be able to dispel the mystery and misconceptions which usually envelop the sport in America. For, contrary to popular opinion, karate is not the science of breaking boards with a bare hand, does not involve any particular toughening of the hand as a weapon, and, in fact, does not consider the hand any more important than any other part of the body...
...instructor of the Harvard group, and a real devotee of the sport, William Zachmann, contends that "true" karate is a total mental and physical system. And while he feels that karate is the best system of self-defense available, he insists that it is primarily a system of general conditioning and coordination...
...skills and abilities which these exercises impart to the individual are not the type which require any exceptional or inborn ability. Since one of the primary goals of the sport is the development of balance and coordination, there is no question of "aptitude" for athletics either. Karate initiates even minimize the importance of physical fitness or build in the beginner...
Born. To Lieut. Richard Stanley Musial, 23, son of the St. Louis Cardinals' 42-year-old slugger, and Sharon Edgar Musial, 19: their first child, a son; in Fort Riley, Kans. (see SPORT...