Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hockey Sticks. Moscow has begun an ambitious building program for leisure-time sport centers, including an Olympic-size saltwater pool. "Our goal," explains Anatoly Eremin, chairman of the Moscow City Council of Sports Societies, "is to provide a sport center for each collective of workers from 500 to 1,000 people." Official spending on hotels and other travel facilities has more than doubled since 1966, and travel is cheap when arranged through the Trade Union Council's group tours...
Starved for Sport. In 1844, Bethlehem was bedlam indeed. Gentlefolk considered it a sport to come out to watch the inmates. Obstreperous patients were judiciously starved or given violent purgatives to keep them submissive. Deaths from overdoses of opiates were common. Dadd survived this hell for six years. In 1852, Dr. William Hood, a pioneer in England of modern mental therapy, was assigned to Bethlehem. Hood encouraged Dadd to take up brush and pencil once again. Hood's hospital steward, George Henry Haydon, was an amateur artist and encouraged Dadd further. Dadd dedicated The Fairy Feller's Masterstroke...
Kelly was a three-sport star in high school at Reading, Mass., and was a high draft choice of the St. Louis Cardinals. He played defensive back for the Crimson football team last fall, but will recovery of an onside kick during the last minute of The Game...
Reacting to the growing pressure for stricter enforcement, the Food and Drug Administration last month seized 28,150 pounds of Lake Michigan coho salmon infected by pesticide residue. But no one knows how much of the fish plucked from U.S. lakes daily by commercial and sport fishermen is contaminated. A classic example is Clear Lake, Calif., where DDT (at the minuscule proportion of two one-hundredths of a part per million parts of water) was used to kill off a troublesome, lake-hatching insect. As a result, plankton accumulated DDT residues at five parts per million; fatty tissue of fish...
...Friends of Harvard Swimming presented an award, too. Frank B. Holand, who is not connected with the University, was the recipient of this prize, which recognizes "noteworthy performance" in the sport. Holland has been a National Red Cross water safety instructor in the New England area for over 35 years...