Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York City, several thousand school kids were out, and tangling frequently with cops, in a strike that had completely lost its point days before. They had originally cut classes in sympathy with the city's teacher-coaches, who had struck to get extra pay for their sport chores. Long after the coaches had gone back to work, their pupils had not. The kids simply changed their slogan from "No sports-no school" to a call-to-arms with more appeal: "Shorter hours, more sports, less homework...
...running of G.M. is his work, hobby and dissipation. He does not smoke, takes only an occasional cocktail and has never played golf or any other sport. Sports, Mr. Sloan firmly believes, are an unprofitable waste of a man's time...
After 18 bullfightless years, Guatemalans were discovering that the revival of the ancient Spanish sport was not to be achieved in a day or in weeks. Guatemala's torrential rains gave the bulls rheumatism. The long waits for a clear afternoon made the toreros neurotic. Their performance in the ring was tentative, and Guatemalans complained...
...travel ban assured sport fans of a World Series, bowl football games and winter horse racing. Some other toddling steps toward normalcy...
...Racing Commission to let him bar Titan from the betting. Denied the right to gamble on a sure thing, betters merely nibbled at the rest of the field, sending $15,000 less through the mutuel machines than last year. Then, more or less reconciled to what was almost objective sport, they settled down to watch Titan's free-wheeling spin, in a setting out of Currier & Ives. Titan, whose owners picked him up for $3,000, romped home in two straight heats of the normally two-out-of-three contest...