Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BOGEY MAN, by George Plimpton. What happened to George as a bogus touring golf pro should not happen to a golf ball, but while absorbing his routine athletic humiliations, he manages again to write knowingly and entertainingly from inside a major sport...
Looking for Winners. As a nonviolent man in the world's most violent sport, Allen may be an anomaly. But he has long been regarded as one of the most brilliant tacticians in the game. After nine years as a small-college coach (Morningside in Iowa, Whittier in California), he served for eight years as an assistant to Head Coach George Halas of the Chicago Bears and was the architect of a stubborn defense that carried the Bears to the N.F.L. title in 1963; after the championship playoff, the Chicago players presented him with the game ball. Halas himself...
They kill us for their sport...
...story is a variation on the familiar theme of country boy in the big city. Arizona Deputy Sheriff Walt Coogan (Clint Eastwood) is a steely-eyed loner who hunts down criminals as a kind of blood sport. His boss sends him to Manhattan to extradite a prisoner named Ringerman (Don Stroud), who is in Bellevue recovering from an acid trip. He cons the doctors into releasing him, but Ringerman's girl Linny (Tisha Sterling) and a pal named Pushie sap Coogan as he is about to step on the plane for Arizona, stealing his gun and his prisoner. Coogan then...
...York City's Mayor John Lindsay calls Joseph Fink "my favorite hippie." The truth is, Fink is something of a square. He does not freak out, sport beads or let his hair hang to his collar. Instead, Fink wears the badge of a deputy inspector in the New York City Police Department. As head cop in the bohemian quarter of Manhattan's Lower East Side, Fink mans a little-known frontier of the law: preventive enforcement. At a time when young nonconformists tend to see cops as oppressors, call them pigs to their faces and even fling excrement...