Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Stirred by dramatic TV shots of derring-do afield, badgered by friends, family and physicians to stop smoking and start shaping up, armchair athletes all over America in far greater numbers than before are becoming the weekend warriors of sport. But the years, and the gin and the weed and the encroaching flab, have taken their toll. The net result can be painful, and sometimes lethal...
...many Americans, a home is not a house. It is a vehicle. The rolling residence, full or part time, may be a $330,000, 40-ft., custom-converted Greyhound bus or a third-hand '52 Flexible less than half that size and one-thirtieth as expensive. It can sport every domestic convenience or be almost as spartan as a Conestoga. But nearly all of those unwieldy looking crates on wheels are habitations, as legitimately and pridefully owned as any picket-fenced, split-level ranch. With one overriding difference: If you don't like the neighbors, the weather...
Once the class act of baseball, the New York Yankees have fallen on ugly times. For nearly two years, Owner George Steinbrenner, Manager Billy Martin and Outfielder Reggie Jackson have presided over one of the tackier chapters in the sport's history. Together the Cuisinart blades of their egos have produced an almost daily puree of spite, envy and innuendo. In the process, they have transformed baseball's proudest franchise into a synonym for small-minded rancor. Last week one of them, Billy Martin, exited, temporarily, from the one job he always wanted in baseball. Question: Did he fall...
...national lottery that would bring in an estimated $75 million to be funneled to the arts, sport and other good causes...
...required contribution of $ 13 million a year by soccer-pool promoters to help the sport, among other ways, by supporting amateur clubs and combatting stadium hooliganism. The commission also urged stricter control over commercial lotteries, which came in for the heaviest criticism: "The situation we have discovered is scandalous. There is wholesale disregard of the law, commercial exploitation to a totally unacceptable degree and, we strongly suspect, a good deal of plain dishonesty...