Word: sportsmans
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...Gunsmith Gilbert Forbes, proprietor of The Sign of the Sportsman at 18 Broad Way, admitted receiving Tryon's money through Matthews and sending one shipment of 20 guns to the British. He claimed, however, that nearly half the guns had been defective and that the real purpose of the money had been to recruit Continental soldiers to the British cause...
...would have a king; and most importantly, the legalization of all political parties. The common front unites almost every anti-Franco party, from the Communists to four non-socialist Christian Democratic groups--all of whom will fall into Lisbon-style infighting if they can first dispose of Spain's sportsman-king...
...long wanted a more liberal political life for Spain, but that he could not say so publicly until General Franco stepped down or died. A successor to power only by Franco's sufferance, Juan Carlos had no choice but to accept his public image as a pliable sportsman-prince...
Savage Caricature. At the same time, the Polish weekly paper Sportowiec (The Sportsman) published an article entitled "Decline of a Hero," which characterized a certain famous sports figure, identified as "P," as having a secret life that he had hidden under the mask of a fencer. The Polish weekly newspaper Literatura ran a savage caricature representing Pawlowski as a sinister spy whose fencing thrust is parried and his saber broken as he tries to gather military secrets. Such attacks on Pawlowski in the official press suggest that he may still be alive and that Polish leaders aim to prepare public...
...respected by black and white as a first-class sportsman and gentleman -all over the world...