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Word: sportingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that faced the windows, giving them a good view of the water-skiers cavorting on Lake Geneva, and of the sun. However, the American delegation-Vance, Ambassador Malcolm Toon, Chief Arms Negotiator Paul Warnke and others-did have to face a wall ornamented by three almost blinding LeRoy Neiman sport prints...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: No Sudden Cloudbursts | 7/24/1978 | See Source »

...back from her first tennis vacation since her debut as a 16-year-old at Forest Hills in 1971. She won the first of her two Wimbledon singles titles at 19, and has ruled the game with icy consistency ever since. But sated and weary, she temporarily abandoned the sport this winter. While Chris went home to her parents, Martina came home to her talents. Mastering an emotional temperament and harnessing her formidable gifts to new-found concentration and a newly designed "lucky dress," Navratilova reeled off a string of indoor victories. For the first time since injury blunted Billie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Swedish-Czech Coronation | 7/17/1978 | See Source »

...feud between Brown, the fans and the local press has raged openly as the new owner attempted to prove to the NBA that maintaining a financially-solvent franchise in Buffalo was impossible. Brown labelled basketball a doomed "third sport" in the Queen City, and he watched his Erie-bound ship sink into monetary disaster...

Author: By Mark D. Director, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: The Boston-San Diego-Buffalo Shuffle | 7/14/1978 | See Source »

Bowie Kuhn would probably have had a seizure if someone presented that trade to him and labelled it "in the best interests" of the sport...

Author: By Mark D. Director, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: The Boston-San Diego-Buffalo Shuffle | 7/14/1978 | See Source »

...loser in all this is the fan. He's the ultimate one to either lose his team or have to pay the expense of the sport...

Author: By Mark D. Director, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: The Boston-San Diego-Buffalo Shuffle | 7/14/1978 | See Source »

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