Word: sported
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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First, the two trucks waiting to transfer the equipment broke down and had to be pushed off the airstrip; then Simon Losala, Gizenga's provincial president, realizing that a dusty sport shirt was inappropriate for the occasion, rushed off to find a jacket and tie. When he returned, his tipsy words of welcome were: "I have been diddling around all day to ensure that these generators serve the population. In about three days or three weeks, I forget which, we shall have light again. It has meant a lot of work but, by God, I have...
...years, skiing was a sport for sun burned huskies in low-slung plus fours and a handful of hardy girls willing to bundle up like a G.I. blanket roll. Now the whole shape of skiing has been changed by a trim, cozy and inordinately sexy import from Germany: stretch pants. Many a girl who did not know a slalom from a sitzmark has discovered that stretch pants round out her personality in a fetching manner and make a skiing weekend an opportunity rather than an ordeal; men linger on the trails to see rather than ski as the girls...
...perfect, but the fact that he rode at all reflects the skill and daring that make Kenny McLean, at 22, the Rodeo Cow boys Association's Rookie of the Year, and the hottest young bronc rider ever to crash the big-time rodeo circuit. In almost any other sport, McLean would have been riding the bench. The night before, he split two teeth and was carted to the hospital unconscious after tumbling heavily from an evil-tempered bronc. "Ken ny's horse took a run from the gate," says fellow bronc rider George Williams...
...their Sportsman of the Year, the editors of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED picked towering Jerry Lucas, star of Ohio State's top-ranked basketball team and the U.S.'s 1960 Olympics squad. Said SI: "Jerry Lucas is not only a fine athlete but a symbol of his generation's best at a time when its best is sorely needed by his country as well as his sport...
...folk-music fans, the newest spectator sport is listening to a quartet of leather-lunged Irishmen crowding around a microphone and taking a few melodious cracks at the English. The song, chances are, will be God Bless England...