Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...freckled kid next door with the mustard-stained red-and-white striped polo shirt. But Plimpton was never one to gloat intensely over another's victories. Plimpton was not disposed to the vicarious pleasures most Americans derive from sitting glued to the tube, or listening to radio broadcasts of sporting events. If a sport intrigued him (as nearly every one did, at some point) Plimpton got out there and started pitching. He turned on to football, and made a go at that. After an abortive period in the exhibition camp of the Detroit Lions, he turned on to golf...
Plimpton trained, sweated, and refined his talents until he became deft enough to do each sport with the pros. If he were around today, for his fictional Bosox marathon, it would have been so much less painful. For a minimal charitable pledge to help the team, he could have been out in Fenway Park, batting grounders to Carl Yasztremski. If not like the pros, he could have won a rare opportunity to play with them...
Columnist Art Buchwald is in favor of the sport, especially the two-cheek variation he learned in Paris. Says...
...tree. Their bright thermal suits were splotched with oil, eyes were red from fatigue, and windburned faces were scratched from encounters with barbed wire and flying stones. Some hobbled, others seemed permanently hunched from their battle. The weary combatants had just completed the opening day of one of sport's most grueling events, the St. Paul Winter Carnival's 12th International Snowmobile Race-a 576-mile, four-day, open-throttled marathon from St. Paul to Winnipeg...
...25th-floor office overlooking a frigid Manhattan, had no difficulty even in those circumstances in conjuring up the vivid sensations of his Minnesota boyhood, when winter temperatures could dip as low as -40° and cross-country skiing on the Mississippi River outside his door was a fairly common sport. The cold fact is that this is Magnuson's 65th cover story for TIME, another record for the week. For Associate Editor Peter Stoler, who wrote the accompanying box on how the Big Freeze fits into the long-term weather outlook, the worst aspect of the cold...