Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mother's Boy. Three years ago 41-year-old Tommy Hitchcock won a commission in the Army Air Forces. "Polo is exciting," he once remarked, "but you can't compare it to flying in wartime. That's the best sport in the world." He never got back into combat. When he died he was a lieutenant colonel doing tactical research for the Ninth Air Force...
...absence of free discussion much side-alley talk ensued. The lunatic fringe of the Left tried to identify him with fascism-an effort in which they were aided by characters on the lunatic Right such as Gerald Smith who spoke in his favor. And there arose the unseemly sport of "smearing" MacArthur. But generally, despite an occasional serious utterance such as the open advocacy of Senator Arthur Vandenberg, most of the press and radio kept dead-pan to the attitude that MacArthur-for-President was not a proper subject for discussion...
...Matthai, 21, a pretty Indian girl from Bombay, a Columbia University student. She was not wearing the Indian sari pulled over her hair, but a bright kerchief; and as she walked out of the empty, lighted lobby, the operator noticed she wore a tan polo coat, dark slacks, and sport shoes. She had no bag. The street lights along Riverside Drive made pale yellow pools on the drifted snow, but beyond, Grant's Tomb and the park sloping down to the Hudson River were lost in gloom. That was the morning of March...
Fenway Park is a bandbox of a baseball stadium that holds about 25,000 people on a good day with a bang-up ball game. Around the field on opening day, Tuesday, were scattered a bare 9,600 devotees of the national sport, waiting to see what effect the tightened draft regulations have had on the caliber of professional baseball...
More than 60 men, both Navy and civilian, have responded thus far to Coach Richard Dorson's call for candidates for the Harvard tennis team, thereby completely dispelling any doubts that may have existed up to now regarding the future of this Varsity sport...