Word: sported
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...think, for most beginners, sport parachuting isn't actually a sport...
...interest of the development of skydiving as a major sport at the Summer School, the Summer News is pleased to reprint the following article, published earlier this year in the Harvard Crimson Review. James R. Ullyot is a former sports editor for the Crimson...
...This is a most intellectual sport," he asserts in a vivid description of the internal conflict that he experienced during his first jump. "On the one hand is the fact of its safety: you grasp this easily and firmly with the mind. But on the other hand is the emotion of fear. It is so strong that you might want to call it an instinct. It is not, of course. This fear is very useful, and you have learned it from your earliest days of falling out of your high-chair...
...system's first year in four Chicago apartment houses, it turned into what one avid viewer described as "the greatest indoor sport since chess." Not content simply to tune in when they themselves had visitors, most tenants were delightedly looking in fulltime at their neighbors...
...flies on executive airplanes, misses the conversation of a random seat mate. Even his recreation is isolated: "As chairman, his golf dates are rare, are always arranged in advance by his secretary, and the foursome is invariably selected from not over six possibilities. If duck shooting is his sport, he will be found at a small private club where no uncouth voice is heard; if it is fishing the lodge will be remote and the waters privately stocked and patrolled...