Word: sported
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...picture of Paul Child and the information about him confirm that I knew him as the art teacher at Avon Old Farms School, Avon, Conn., during the early 1930s. But I remember him best as the black-belt jujitsu expert who schooled me in the lightning leverages of that sport, and sometimes allowed me the illusion that I was giving him a contest...
...would be torn apart by old animosities and new social forces. This is true even of some European nations. Certainly today's rulers have serious problems. Greece's young King Constantine is at loggerheads with the politicians in a country where politics is played like karate (a sport at which Constantine excels). Jordan's Hussein is doing his best to stave off antimonarchist rioters instigated by his leftist neighbors, Syria and the United Arab Republic. Only last week the new African nation Burundi ended the 400-year-long tribal rule of King Ntare...
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...tucked their masks in their pockets as soon as they arrived. Explained Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt: "It itches, and I can't see." Soon the women followed suit, long before the magical hour of midnight. While the bands alternated rock 'n' roll and pop tunes, the favorite sport became people watching, until the question arose, what next? With no climax in sight and no single star to shine, part of the answer was 450 bottles of nonvintage Taittinger champagne. Paris Review Editor George Plimpton began throwing slow-motion forward passes with a napkin to Receiver John Kenneth Galbraith...
...Main Street or in Greenwich Village. And if Glackens' peachy women have downcast eyes, it is not from sadness but wistfulness for a world that would never be the same. They seem ready to hope more than to rejoice, like closeted daughters waiting to make a debut and sport their beauty-which both they, and American art, were about to do, in fewer years than even the most optimistic imagined...