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Word: sportingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only 400-meter U.S. Olympic rink was closed last month by the Wisconsin State Fair Park Board. This rink is located near Milwaukee, where Peter Mueller and Sheila Young trained to represent the U.S. Too bad America can't spend some money to keep the rink and the sport going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Feb. 23, 1976 | 2/23/1976 | See Source »

While still in high school, this runner placed fourth, fifth and sixth in the United States junior nationals for his major sport, and in 1972 he was ranked second in the nation in the 20-and-under category. For the last two years, he has been all-American...

Author: By Daniel Gil, | Title: Philippe Bennett--Zorro of the Ivies | 2/20/1976 | See Source »

Fencing "is a very individual sport," according to Bennett. "It's one in which I can release my emotions easily. It's beneficial in the sense that the more emotional you are, probably, the better fencer you'll be, as long as you're capable of controlling the emotions and not letting them overcome the judgments you're supposed to be making on the strip...

Author: By Daniel Gil, | Title: Philippe Bennett--Zorro of the Ivies | 2/20/1976 | See Source »

...About the most popular sport with the junior jocks the vice squad is 'blow job roulette,"' St. James told the magazine Bay Area Lifestyle...

Author: By Marilyn L. Booth, | Title: New Tricks in the Labor Zone | 2/18/1976 | See Source »

Biathlon, the Games' most eccentric sport, is surely the most demanding. Racers must push their bodies to the thresh old of fatigue, then steady to take dead aim at the four firing points along the trail. Particularly punishing are the 200-meterlong penalty loops that competitors in the relay race must run if they fail to break a target. It is all a far cry from the origins of the sport in Lapland, when dinner depended on a hunter's accuracy. Heikki Ikola of Finland could win the individual event; the Soviets and Finns will go head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Short Guide to All the Action | 2/2/1976 | See Source »

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