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Word: sportingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also turned conducting into a spectator sport, giving the role of conductor a panache that has not yet been surpassed. When he died last week of a heart attack during a morning nap at his farmhouse in an English village called Nether Wallop, a titan of music was gone, an era ended. At age 95, he had been expecting to go to London to make another album for Columbia Records...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sounds Never Heard Before | 9/26/1977 | See Source »

...announcer boomed: "Now he's doing a prime-ministerial lean to the left." The usually right-leaning P.M. and his driver came in third. Whipping off his helmet, an exhilarated Fraser declared: "If I wasn't Prime Minister, I would love to devote more time to the sport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 26, 1977 | 9/26/1977 | See Source »

...signal caller with the inside track on today's starting assignment (despite the fact that Restic will not make if official until about an hour before game time) is junior Larry Brown. Brown, the flaky but superbly gifted two-sport athlete (also a starting pitcher on the baseball team) from nearby Norwood "has looked excellent in practice," according to fullback Chris Doherty, and was the only other QB to see action last week against the Lions...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Lost in The Shuffle-And Only One Winning Card | 9/24/1977 | See Source »

...team sport, one weak link can curtail the efforts of the other players, and Crimson coaches are hoping that this won't be the case with the current edition of the Harvard defense. Sure, Joe Restic has welcomed the Ivy League's best defensive line back into the fold along with a potent pack of linebackers, but "unless the defensive backs can handle the one-on-one coverage, we can't do what we want with these other people. We can't use the blitz; we can't put pressure on the opposition," Restic said yesterday...

Author: By David Clarke, | Title: Crimson Grid Hopes Depend Largely On The Untested Defensive Secondary | 9/22/1977 | See Source »

...when the sun finally set yesterday evening over Cambridge, and the Coop finally closed, and the course-shopping finally concluded, there was really little to do. Except wait until this morning and start the 200 all over again. See you around Bio 106, sport...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: A Sluggish Opening Day At Harvard | 9/20/1977 | See Source »

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