Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...game of jai alai (pronounced high lie) is Cuba's contribution to Miami's sport life. Long popular in a grubby way, despite its commercialization - its bursts of breath-taking action punctuated by frequent intermissions while the audience was canvassed for bets - it may prove to be a big-time gambling game...
...news knocked the breath out of indoor track. Pole-vaulters, shot-putters and sprinters come and go, but the mile goes on forever as the backbone of the sport. With Dodds out of the running, all present thought of the dream (4:04) mile vanished, and with it the "marvelous mile'' that might have been, between Dodds and Sweden's great Gunder...
...know that hidden talents can be overlooked, even when they strike you between the eyes three times a week through management cases and another time when in contact with them. Moral; keep your I.Q. within reason just for the sport of the game...
Most Manhattan papers brushed off last week's awarding of the American Horse Shows Association's annual medal to Lois Lisanti as horsewoman of the year. But caustic Dan Parker, Daily Mirror sport columnist, whose pet targets are boxers, wrestlers and race-trackers, found it worth 1,200 words. Wrote Columnist Parker...
...First to sport the new five-star insigne, on the flag of his flagship* last fortnight, was Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King. It consisted of a cluster of five stars set so as to form a pentagon, a symbolism which could scarcely escape the witty attention of junior officers on duty far from Washington. By last week, other signs of the new top rank for U.S. officers appeared...