Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...open year-round, Victorian-style swim suits have yielded to two-piece costumes for girls. "Janes," as Moscow University jets call their girls (after the heroine in antediluvian Tarzan movies that reached Russia after World War II), are discovering eye shadow, generally paint their nails; they most frequently sport bouffant or Bardot hairdos, though Audrey Hepburn cuts ($1.50) and permanents ($6) are gaining in popularity. Hip guys, or firmennye (literally, foreign firms), go for white shirts and solid ties from France; but hard-to-get button-down shirts and striped ties from the U.S. Ivy League are the most. Bell...
...heard a group of washerwomen singing his lyrics. "That did it." says he. "From then on I was poetry-struck." After wartime evacuation to Zima, he made goalkeeper on an all-Moscow schoolboy team and signed up for professional soccer. Day before he was to report for training, Soviet Sport published his first poem to see print, and Zhenya turned his sights on literature's big league. He started turning out poems "like pancakes." mostly flat odes to stock Stalinist subjects. ("Very bad." he admits.) They opened the door to Gorky Literary Institute, where he studied desultorily for years...
...this the Saturday night pastime of a civilized people?" asked the New York Times in an editorial. "An unprecedented boxing scandal," agreed the Vienna Kurier. The New York Post called boxing "organized primitivism," and demanded that it be outlawed. "Professional boxing," reported the Vatican radio, "is a morally objectionable sport...
...baseball fan is probably the most set-upon spectator in sport. Insulted by ushers, gouged by concessionaires, he fights his way into a dirty, crowded ballpark, squeezes happily into a viselike seat -and often finds himself neatly positioned behind a post. Last week it seemed at last that the long-suffering spectator might be getting a break: around the major leagues were sprouting new stadiums designed to make watching more of a pleasure, less of a chore...
...Harvard Athletic Asso has been instrumental in making to berth the new boats, have said that the sailing will remain completely under management and direction and no continue as a minor sport University, and P.T. credits will for freshmen...