Word: sported
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...into a whirring IBM computer, which measures the results of one team's performance against the others, then "feeds back" new market data from which the teams make decisions for the following quarter-and so on, for five make-believe years of business. It is a costly sport. Charge for a four-week A.M.A. course: $850 per player...
...sportswriter whose head is not turned by the luminaries of sport and whose typewriter does not print in purple ink, Jim Murray, 42, onetime Los Angeles Examiner, TIME and SPORTS ILLUSTRATED staffer, is a prime example of the new look in sportswriting. Since the days when Paul Gallico, Westbrook Pegler, Ring Lardner and Grantland Rice turned sportswriting into an art (and drew the best pay in newspapering for it), their imitators have filled the nation's sports pages with some of the worst-and occasionally some of the best-overwriting in journalism. This encouraged the notion, said Stanley Walker...
...Guatemala, where philandering approaches the status of a national sport, the present chief of state, President Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes, 65, is a defiant monogamist of 38 years' standing. Last week, after long tolerating the irailties of his colleagues, the marital maverick finally shot off a thunderbolt to the Ministry of Interior. "Public rumors supported by evidence," he wrote, "show that many functionaries and government officials not only have mistresses but are seen in public with them, displaying disrespect toward their homes.'' The snapper to President Ydígoras' attempt to achieve fidelity by fiat...
Discretion on and off the field is just one major requirement for the big-league baseball umpire, whose job ranks among the most demanding, the least appreciated and the loneliest in organized sport. Ideally, the umpire should combine the integrity of a Supreme Court justice, the physical agility of an acrobat, the endurance of Job and the imperturbability of Buddha. Before each game, he must perform such lackey's chores as "policing" the diamond and rubbing the gloss off 60 new baseballs with specially aged New Jersey creek mud that costs $12.50 a can. He must know by heart...
Many of the Union's members sport a round pin bearing the word DO, which stands for the WCTU doors-open theme ("Doors Open for Christian Sobriety"). "Do" is also the WCTU's favorite word. Members are fond of sentences with lots of energetic do's, like "Do not be afraid to do whatever you can do to stop your friends from purchasing food in supermarkets that do sell beer and malts." The slogan for the coming year is "Double...