Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Paris to demand less money for Charles de Gaulle's force de frappe and more for industrializing Brittany. Significantly, only four Gourinois turned up in the crowd. This summer Lozach has arranged for Air France to carry 212 Manhattan operatives of the Stade Breton-Gourin's local sport and socializing club-back to the home village. "They'll spend about $2,000 each," Lozach explains. "That makes the place pretty wealthy...
...ground of Zambezi River crocodiles, and finally the Litunga, Barotseland's proud king, was forced to ask the British government for help. Having boned up on modern weaponry, he requested a submarine to combat the river's savage saurians-and also to provide himself with a little sport. But Whitehall was not willing to proliferate dangerous weapons. The Litunga ended up with only a dress sword, a British admiral's uniform, and a vague feeling of frustration...
Applause of Juveniles. By contrast, Novelist Richard G. Stern frets at Chicago about the fact that "some faculty members consider me a bit of a sport-amusing, but not to be attended to too seriously." He sees a danger in the classroom, where the artist is "put in a position of power and becomes more quickly satisfied, going away delighted with the applause of juveniles." Others find the criticism of students only too candid. At U.C.L.A., Writer-Playwright Christopher Isherwood patiently answers Questions aimed at baring his soul: "What do you think about God?" "Have you changed your mind about...
...everyone has to go to bed with it. Though Cuckold is too long, and made longer by dead-end forays into its hero's fantasy life, Director Antonio Pietrangeli imbues a thin fable with sprightly cynicism about the dire consequences of dalliance for players unable to master the sport...
...Jersey cobbler, Stagg stood 5 ft. 6 in. tall and weighed barely 160 Ibs. when he played end for Yale in 1889 and was named to Walter Camp's first All-America Team. But his real sport then was baseball. Playing both as an undergraduate and graduate student, Stagg pitched Yale to five straight Big Three championships, was offered $4,500 to play for the New York Giants. He turned it down because ballparks had saloons in them and he was studying for the Presbyterian ministry. When a friend told him that he would never be a good public...