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Word: sporting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Up, Up and Awaaay!!! | 3/14/1988 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: It's a Final: SLU Versus Clarkson | 3/12/1988 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: The Ivies on ESPN | 3/11/1988 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Racquetwoman With the Winning Edge | 3/10/1988 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, | Title: Curing the Basketball Blues | 3/8/1988 | See Source »

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