Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...taxi driver knows the latest back stage gossip from the opera house. The maid hums Schubert lieder while brewing coffee. The shopkeeper can debate the baton technique of leading conductors. Throughout Austria, everybody seems to be caught up in music, whether as a cultural pursuit, political issue, spectator sport, historical tradition or simple daily pleasure. Other countries may name their streets after composers, but Austria must be the only place where a crack train is called the Mozart Express, and where the national airline has planes called Beethoven, Schubert and Bruckner. Even affairs of state become insignificant next...
...notion that good socialists should keep their noses to the grindstone, not the wheel. No longer. Nowadays, the comrades are increasingly addicted to ubiquitous lotteries and numbers games. They also like to take a flutter on weekly, Western-style soccer pools or at the track, where the sport of kings has jockeys in government colors riding state-owned nags. Bettors watch the morning line more closely than the party line, have made big sellers of such magazines as Hungary's Pesti Turf. So high is the gambling fever in Yugoslavia that one party wag has remarked that the state...
Frustrated by a sport they watch but cannot comprehend, a majority of the Editorial Board chose Saturday morning to make light of The Game. That was a regrettable decision on a very serious matter, and though it would be a shame if anyone got mad at anyone else, still no one should have made jokes about...
...most to win or lose-was a noncandidate, President Ferdinand Marcos, 50. Marcos chose to make the election a referendum on his two-year record of land reform, public works and school construction, also saw it as an opportunity to win control of his often rebellious Senate. Dressed in sport shirt and slacks, he showed up at as many as four campaign rallies a night and traveled 10,000 miles around the country, asking the electorate to keep the Philippines "on the move" by voting for his Nacionalista Party candidates...
...sport's first great television heroes, the Saturday idol of millions, long before anyone heard of Arnie Palmer or Wilt the Stilt or Johnny U. Thousands of people sent him letters and greeting cards, little children organized fan clubs in his name, his portrait appeared on the cover of TIME (May 31, 1954). When he lost the 1953 Kentucky Derby by a head to a 25-1 shot named Dark Star, fans turned from their TV sets in tears...