Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...victory as in defeat, Russia keeps sports humming. This winter's program, the most ambitious since the war, opened New Year's Day in Moscow's huge (capacity 75,000) Dynamo Stadium. Men skaters raced for prizes offered by the newspaper Red Sport. Figure skaters gave exhibitions. But the main event was a hockey match between two of Russia's crack sport clubs, the Dynamo and Spartak Societies...
Football (U.S. soccer) is Russia's biggest sport. But in the winter, skiing ranks No. 1. Editorials in Izvestia and Red Star have urged everyone to learn the sport both for health and military training, and last week the 110 ski runs around Moscow were thronged. Schoolchildren take to it like U.S. moppets to baseball...
Athletes from the Front. Russian athletes are not deferred, but soldiers get 10 to 20-day passes for specific competitions. The Government is emphatically pro-sport. (The Red Army discovered that its average draftee in 1939 was an inch taller and five pounds heavier than in 1932, and attributes some of the improvement to mass sport movements.) Ski championships at Sverdlovsk this winter will stress military patrol competition. January's sports carnival for youngsters has events in shooting and grenade throwing...
Like American poker, chess is a Russian indoor sport. Last week there was a big chess upset: Wizard Mikhail Botvinnik was checkmated in 50 moves by the Moscow titleholder, Vasili Smyslov...
...sports strike started in November 1940, when Nazis suppressed the Norwegian Sports Association with its 300,000 members, a tenth of the population. Patriots rebelled at the New Order's all-powerful little Führers in every sport and district. They substituted secret cross-country meets and ski championships...