Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pompidou fondly dubbed Chirac "my bulldozer." Chirac's time is spent on little but his work. He averages two weekends a month at his Correze chateau with his wife Bernadette and two daughters, Laurence, 18, and Claude, 15. He has no hobbies, plays no sport. Bristling with nervous energy, he can be brutal to his staff. He often startles visitors by leaping from behind his desk and pacing the office...
...hockey team will swing west for its annual holiday bout with top mid-western squads. The Crimson skaters sport a 1-3 overall and ECAC record entering the recess and have yet to win an Ivy League contest--their worst start since the 1964-65 season...
...Harvard Classics sport a 5-3 record and, though not as potent as last year, have been impressive in their victories...
Every skier comes to a point sooner or later in his or her careers when the person realizes that he or she is in love with sport. For me this moment came last year. I had been waiting for 25 minutes on a lift line at Killington. I was freezing, the conditions were awful, and I had aggravated an old injury on the previous run. Yet none of this bothered me in the least. I came to the sudden, unmistakable realization that there was no place else I wanted to be, that I was completely hooked on downhill skiing...
Wherever you go, however you go, the important thing is to enjoy yourself at a sport that doesn't require ten-dollar lift tickets, two hour rides in search of "skiable snow," or equipment that would bankrupt the U.S. Treasury...