Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...protests against ROTC catalyzed changesthat would permanently alter the campus climate.They brought the end to a time when facultyfrequently visited dining halls and a dress coderequired students to sport suit ties to meals...
...what of those "powerful forces" who resent his winning the presidency? Is politics a contact sport, or bean bag? Of course "forces" prowl and scheme along Pennsylvania Avenue. Forewarned is forearmed, unless you believe the rules of public propriety are only for others...
...SPORT: Chronicle of a Death Foretold...
Amid the grief there was also anger. Though Senna himself was famously fatalistic about his participation in a sport in which speeds of more than 180 m.p.h. are not uncommon, there were those who thought he had died needlessly. No one had been killed in a Formula One race for 12 years, yet at San Marino alone there were five accidents and two deaths. The day before Senna missed a turn and drove his Williams-Renault into a concrete wall, Austrian rookie Roland Ratzenberger had perished in a similar accident during qualifying trials...
...effort by the International Federation of Automobiles (FIA), Formula One's Paris-based governing body, to sharpen competition by banning the use of high-tech devices thought to give the richer racing teams an unfair advantage. In doing so, the drivers charged, the federation had made the sport far more dangerous. Senna himself had expressed misgivings even before the start of the season. "It's a great error to remove the electronics from the cars," he said. "The cars are very fast and difficult to drive. It is going to be a season of accidents." After Ratzenberger's death...