Word: sportsmans
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...proceeds from the tournament will go to the Sportsman's Tennis Club. which is erecting eight outdoor and four indoor tennis courts in Roxbury. The total cost of the construction will be about...
...phrases as "goodness me." He once apologized to newsmen for saying "hell" and added, "I forgot that I am a soldier." When asked how he hoped to be remembered for his conduct of the war, he replied, "I want to feel that I played my part like a good sportsman...
...Prime Minister swooped 20 miles down a glacier run through virgin snow, braved subfreezing temperatures, high winds and unavoidable falls in heavy crust. Instructors gave his style a B to B+, "très joli," his spirit straight A's. "I thought of coming last year," said the sportsman, "but the general was still here." Not General Winter, either. ··· Making more like Mrs. Miniver than Myra Breckinridge, Raquel Welch, of all people, plans to recite the treacly ballad The White Cliffs of Dover ("In a world where England is finished and dead, I do not wish...
Conflicting Ambitions. Sometimes described as a Jewish Jack Kennedy, Weizman is a tall, lean sportsman who in his spare time flies a vintage black Spitfire with red propeller. A Sabra (native Israeli), he learned to fly in the Royal Air Force during World War II. In 1947 he returned to Palestine, where he bombed Arab positions by dropping hand grenades from a Piper Cub. Weizman took over the air force in 1958 and fought for appropriations against tank-minded generals in order to build it into the superb offensive weapon that knocked out the Arab air forces within the first...
...Emilio Pucci is not a Renaissance man, he is doing one of the best imitations around. A Florentine marchese with a pedigree dating to Donatello, the designer, artist, sportsman, politician and resort-hopper has etched his name into the fashion lexicon of the decade. With the opening of a one-man show of silkscreens, tapestry rugs and sculptures in New York last week, Pucci, at 54, seems about to do for walls and floors what he has done for fashionable women on five continents-swathe them in splinters and swirls of color...