Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There are not enough words in my vocabulary to describe my reaction to "The Strike-Out King" [Aug. 31]. My indignation is not directed against Pitcher Harry Murphy but against those adults who have made winning such an issue that children's baseball, once an enjoyable sport, becomes such an ordeal that a little eight-year-old boy wets his pants in public from fear. And what is worse is that it is not physical fear of pain; it is fear of certain humiliation...
Riding the economic cycle is an old sport of the economists. But none can foresee the events of the future that can easily knock the best theories on the head. In the last recession the U.S. was helped because it stepped up defense spending after the Soviet Sputnik. In a 1961 recession, if the U.S. has a balanced budget-as now seems possible-the Government will be in a position to cut taxes to spur spending...
Herding their cattle over the grassy uplands rolling down from Kilimanjaro in what is now Kenya and Tanganyika, the Masai were fierce, sensual warriors who used dung and ochre for hair oil and drank cattle blood laced with urine. In periodic sport they swooped down on their Bantu neighbors, ramming seven-foot spears through the males and carrying off their women, who often did not seem to mind; the tall, aristocratic Masai were notable men, and Masai wives did not work...
...improbable magazine. It began its real growth in 1951, when it was taken over by a onetime Royal Air Force pilot, London-born James R. A. Bailey, son of the late Sir Abe Bailey, South African financier. Jim Bailey made Drum a lively blend of chocolate cheesecake, sport, controversy, crusades, sensational features, tips to Africa's millions of pennywhistle gamblers, and inscrutable advice to the lovelorn (to a man who asked how he could retrieve the cash investment he had made in two potential wives, "Dolly," Drum's marital expert, coldly suggested: "Providence will reward you"). The difference...
Southbury, Conn., Playhouse: Third Best Sport, a comedy by Eleanor and Leo Bayer...