Word: sportsmanship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Certainly, a citizen must stand the punishment society prescribes, if for no other reason than that he has no chance of escaping it anyway. But this is not the issue. The issue is: Should he, merely because the law, has no regard for sportsmanship, violgate his own superior standard as a sportsman and a gentleman...
...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 ones friends. If a man feels that he has a personal code compelling this reticence, he must pay for his scruple by standing the punishment society prescribes...
...Horace Ashenfelter, 29, Olympic steeplechase champion, who got the Sullivan Trophy as "the amateur athlete . . . who did the most to advance the cause of good sportsmanship during the year." A rank outsider in pre-race ratings, Ashenfelter pulled off the biggest upset of the Olympics when he beat Russia's Record-Holder Vladimir Kasantsev in Olympic-record time...
...professors elaborated that "more embarassment" was no excuse for withholding testimony or exhibition one's hands on television. They felt the witness must be "subjecting himself to some degree of danger of a criminal offense," to justify his reticence. Also ruled out as an alibi was "a sense of sportsmanship forward suspected associates." The Fifth Amendment, they observed, says nothing about one's friends...
Finney became the first member of the junior varsity to win the LaCroix Trophy, which is given annually to the varsity or jayvee player that best exemplifies the qualities of enthusiasm, sportsmanship, loyalty, and team spirit. LaCroix, a former varsity player, was killed in World...