Word: sportsmanship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year." Jockey Sir Gordon Richards, on the other hand, was convinced that there is some honor among thieves when his stolen spurs and gold cigarette case, a gift from King George V, turned up in the Scotland Yard mailbag after his public appeals to the thief's "sportsmanship...
...Sportsmanship. In El Paso, Army Cook Perry Carlyle, arrested on a charge of selling 21 Ibs. of marijuana to a Government undercover agent, protested: "Those guys don't play fair...
...exoneration from compulsory self-incrimination of offenses under State law; but recently some lower federal courts have refused to find witnesses guilty of contempt of the 'Kefauver committee' when they refused to answer questions tending to convict them of certain State crimes that committee was investigating. A sense of sportsmanship toward suspected associates is not an excuse: the Fifth Amendment grants no privilege to protect one's friends. If a man feels that he has a persona code compelling this reticence, he must pay for his scrupple by standing the punishment society prescribe...
Massachusetts' exclusive Groton School believes that what its boys need most is religion, sportsmanship and selfdiscipline. The prep school's formula is Spartan: up at "bell" (6:45 a.m.), cold showers, dark suits on Sundays, chapel (Episcopal) every morning, black marks (which have to be made up through chores like leaf-raking) for misbehavior. The boys must get their Latin conjugations straight, and are encouraged to play a creditable game of football. Such a regime, thinks Brazil's Millionaire Press Lord Assis Chateaubriand, is just what is needed by Brazilian students, for the most part gay youths...
...looked as gorgeous as they ever did, but a few seemed to miss the careful direction they get in films. The cameras might have been less rigid (the losers in the audience were ignored, even though Bob Hope had advised watching them: "You'll see great understanding, great sportsmanship-great acting"). But the show was still fascinating in an unrehearsed, star-studded...