Word: sported
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...simply because this adaptation is vastly more convenient. Our sexuality is certainly not the chief organizing principle of our lives. We have the same variety of aspiration, achievement, and human warmth. We are everywhere that you are, and share large parts of your lives: in school, in your sport, on the U.S. Olympic team, in business, in your home, and even in your family, in other words: the kid next door, someone's brother, sister, daughter...
Save the few exceptions who attend the big sport powerhouses merely for exposure, the average college athlete competes for State U. because he enjoy it and to deprecate his performance by worrying if his team beat the spread or not itself, but also from the attitude with which an athlete may compete...
...reason for their locutions is as simple as the speakers: minor-league jocks laboring in a sport that has never been noted for attracting gentlemen?professional hockey. The Charlestown Chiefs represent one of those old, grimily industrialized middle-size Northeastern cities, the kind of place most viewers hear about only when it loses a defense contract. In a desperate attempt to turn his losers into winners, the coach (Paul Newman) converts the team from skaters into brawlers?tank-town versions of the old, notorious Philadelphia Flyers. His tactics are as low as the team's skills in language arts...
...mean everybody was a big deal in high school. Even you. Editor of your yearbook, right? Maybe a three-sport, nine-letterman. Maybe both, with a little class valedictorian thrown in for good measure...
Harvard men hold an advantage in consistency. In a sport where it is probably the most crucial factor, the Crimson quartet has repeatedly displayed the requisite steadiness...