Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Murphy's first experience on a swim team came at Wellesley High School where she swam for three years. When she entered Radcliffe, Murphy couldn't decide which sport to participate in. Because few Radcliffe swimmers had much experience at the time she decided to join the team...
...commitment to swimming. Murphy is nothing but exuberant. "Sometimes," she said, "I feel like a real jock. I could never picture myself devoting so much of my life to a sport, but it's great. Knowing that physically I can do the workouts and turn in the times is really satisfying." Murphy is also on the Radcliffe water polo team and Eliot House crew...
...keeping the defense strong, making nuclear strategy more flexible, holding the military together after Viet Nam. Then, as usual, there was more. Skepticism has gone too far, he believes. It has forced concentration on things that don't matter, like perceiving conspiracies and finding villains for the sheer sport of it. He worried about family structures weakening, and whether the schools are good enough to produce the people we need now. So much of the national disillusion, he felt, had been planted in the classrooms in past years...
...Cross-country is not a revenue sport," Fitzsimmons said, "but we work as hard as the football or hockey teams and should be treated with equality...
When the season did begin, Fitzsimmons faced the problems of adjusting to the longer distances of college competition and the rigors of participating on a varsity sport as a freshman...