Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sport combines the best of sailing and surfing...
Missing his T-shirt and sporting a mean sunburn, the wise old bleacher philosopher ambled from his seat, still talking of his mastery of the sport, his control of the odds and his long history with the game...
...Establishment?Governors, Cabinet members, bankers, insurance executives, professors of sociology, obscure local politicians and even a Greek Orthodox archbishop?gathered in groups in Washington. Marine helicopters ferried them to the mountaintop presidential retreat at Camp David. There Jimmy Carter, outfitted sometimes in blue jeans, at other times in snappy sport coats, pressed them for their ideas about energy, the economy, his own Administration, the national mood?and himself. Toward week's end, while aides were drafting the Sunday-night TV speech that he hoped would rally the nation, the President lent confusion to the proceedings by twice vanishing from...
Ruhollah was by all accounts a bright child. He loved to play soccer and has retained an interest in the sport; he occasionally watched soccer matches on TV during his four-month exile in Neauphlele-Château, outside Paris, in 1978-79. He attended Koranic school in Khomein, and was later sent to Arak to study under a well-known Islamic scholar, Abdul Karim Haeri. In 1920, when Haeri moved to Qum and established the famed Madresseh Faizieh, a center of Islamic learning, Ruhollah went with him. Except for his years in exile, Khomeini has lived and taught there...
Sailing is no longer the elite sport that it once was. And reluctant to pay high prices for gasoline, more and more Boston area residents are staying close to home, taking advantage of a free breeze and the various sailing facilities in the vicinity. Last Tuesday, students of the Boston Sailing Center manned 27-foot-long Solings and enjoyed an evening of racing in Boston Harbor...