Word: sporting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...girl was a sketchy figure with bobbed hair and a working girl's hat; his successors filled her out a bit, made her almost glamorous; today she wears slacks, bangs and a look of grim determination. From the beginning she has been an object of her creators' male chauvinist sport. When she asks, in one of the very first comic-book installments, to cover the collapse of a crumbling dam, Planet Editor Perry White gruffly insists on sending the less experienced Clark Kent: "It's too important! -- This is no job for a girl!" Lois reacts by tricking the devoted...
...second period, things began to fall apart for Harvard. First, Dave Tretowicz hit the Crimson post with a slow roller from the blue-line. Then, with 11 minutes remaining in the period. junior Dave Mellen converted his first career goal from the same sport Tretowicz had launched his bowling ball six minutes earlier...
...wiped [Holleran] out," Harvard women's Associate Coach Jack Barnaby said. "I've never seen a superior athletic display in any athletic sport. I've never seen better women's squash by anybody, anywhere. She was absoultely fantastic...
Edge was actively involved in both squash and tennis at a young age. Her father, a squash player, encouraged her to become involved in the sport. And from him, she learned the basics of squash...
...Because of my weak basketball background, I have a lot to learn about the sport, and I do that during the summer," Delaney Smith notes...