Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time-honored French sport of tax-as-tax-can, the government has historically been a heavy loser. But eight months ago, as part of a campaign called "Operation Embarrassment," French Finance Minister Antoine Pinay opened the nation's previously secret tax records to public scrutiny, was soon inundated by anonymous letters from citizens who wondered how their neighbors could afford a new car on an income of $600 a year. Last week came the payoff: picking up their evening papers, three French businessmen and an elderly widow found themselves the subjects of headline stories branding them as consistent...
...help to keep a student in school as long as 13 hours a day. Homework is often an evening spent proselytizing citizens about Marxism. "Vacation" is an assignment in the coal mines or harvesting crops. While prune-faced female lecturers drone on about the miracles of collectivization, the student "sport" society dutifully digs foxholes and practices with carbines. As paid employees of the state, students have little trouble passing as long as they remain politically reliable. The school must fulfill its "production plan" and turn out so many graduates per year. Every graduate must pledge to work in whatever...
Died. De Benneville (Bert) Bell, 65, iron-willed National Football League Commissioner (1946-59) who, by a liberal use of his powers and an occasional violation of the letter of the bylaws, turned professional football into a booming sport, aroused interest to the point of doubling attendance and players' salaries; after a heart attack; in Philadelphia...
...Indoor Sport. Casanova was born in Venice in 1725, the son of an actor whose Spanish forebears were noted for their adventurousness (one sailed with Columbus) and their illegitimacy. He was still in his teens when he decided that men are, so to speak, either florists or deflorists. His bent was clear, and when his mother enrolled him in a seminary, he was quickly expelled. The second volume of the Putnam edition (the first was issued last spring, and four more will appear at half-year intervals) takes up the rake's progress when he is 23. Casanova...
...football at Harvard was just beginning to capture the fancy of the undergraduates; it was in that year that the Crimson promoted the sport to a place in its "Sporting Column," lifting it from the department entitled "Brevities." On the eve of the Columbia contest, the Crimson observed, "The men do not fall on the ball enough; they must get accustomed to throwing themselves on the ball, instead of dancing round outside of a scrimmage, and expecting the ball to be kicked out to them ... Our men do not tackle hard enough; they should try to throw their man every...