Word: sported
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Finally, since all but two of the varsity netmen plays a winter sport, the new facility will be largely empty and open to the University community in the non-tennis months of the year...
...prefer to do their own prospecting in Europe and import a cook or a maid without a written contract. This can lead to some poignant frustrations when the importee discovers what a seller's market domestic service is in the U.S. Cook stealing has long been a popular sport (even the Kennedys have tried it), but it has reached fantastic heights. Anna, a cook who came from Germany to Beverly Hills-where cook stealing is as popular as wife stealing-started at $250 a month. Within three weeks she had switched to another household at $400 a month...
High-Priced Sport. Buick's boss is not the only one with such hopes. For 1963 Oldsmobile has decked out its top model, the Starfire, with a sculptured T-bird-type roof to give it a sporty look. Pontiac's Grand Prix has undergone the same treatment. Not to be left out, Chrysler is readying its new 300}, a revved-up version of the Chrysler New Yorker...
...meeting of the steel-nerved, a championship of far-out, far-up sport, and the finest things about it were hidden by clouds and distance. For spectators at Orange, Mass., last week, the World Sport Parachuting Championships held bleak rewards: the sight of countless parachutes floating down, enough accidents to add the thrill of danger. But for the chutists, there was the intoxicating sensation of man flying on his own, guiding his long, downward swoop through the atmosphere...
Invisible Stunts. Points are awarded in sport parachuting both for accuracy (trying to hit the exact center of the 328-ft. target area from as high as 1,500 meters) and style, in which sky divers somersault and turn by waggling their outstretched arms. The classic form for a sustained free fall is an ecstatic swan dive, the jumper falling spread-eagled and belly down, his back deeply arched. A roll of the head, a dip of the hands, a hunch of the shoulders-any movement will alter his fall. The body acts as a primitive airfoil and expert...