Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tight slacks. But he lavishes attention on his Mercury mistress, Easy Rider shocks, oversize slickers, dual exhaust. He exults in tinkering with that beautiful engine, lying cool beneath the open hood, ready to respond, quick and fiery, to his touch. The automobile is his love and his sport...
...power slide is a grand slam homer and game-winning touchdown wrapped into one. It is this kind of action and these kind of men that draw perhaps 500,000 Southerners on a weekend to some 100 small tracks operating week after week for nine months a year. The sport defies economic logic. A late-model sports car race might feature a dozen cars worth from $12,000 to $16,000 each flying flat out to win a first prize of $700. At the smallest tracks, the purse can drop...
...second-floor beehive, the student manager's office in the basement of 60 Boylston street seems pretty deserted. Janet Mitchell, the managers' secretary, says she hasn't had much to do yet this year. But when the semester kicks off, every student who wants to play in any sport has to fill out an eligibility form--they must all be channelled through her--and then, she says, it can get really hectic. Football manager Fleischaker says he used to think most of the forms players have to fill out--relating to health, academic standing and general well-being--were just...
...currently finishing up a series of articles about the presidential candidates that will run jointly in Redbook, Women-Sport, American Home and Ladies Home Journal...
...debates should provide fine spectator sport: valuable for the chance to judge the candidate's character by his demeanor under pressure. But very little real news may emerge. Having campaigned all year, neither Ford nor Carter is apt to be surprised by an unexpected question. Both will be briefed and crammed; both are unfazed at repeating by rote positions previously taken. The likeliest result of such an equal facing-off, as it was in the 1960 Kennedy-Nixon debates, is to make the argument of inexperience suddenly lose much of its force...