Word: sportsmanship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...does the U.S. strengthen its Western alliances by having the tallest basketball players or the quickest middle distance runners. "A creditable showing" consists of more than victories, and a supreme effort to win at any cost may often lead to neglect of standards of sportsmanship which more certainly than gold medals win respect from other nations...
...friendly display of good sportsmanship, the Internal Revenue Service last week published a booklet telling the U.S. public how to calculate income taxes at the bare legal minimum. The 25? booklet (Your Federal Income Tax: 1955) gives advice on almost every problem the average individual taxpayer is likely to face. Samples...
Though it may be bad sportsmanship--and most hecklers will admit it--goaliebaiting is a psychological art. Playing a good game in the goal depends almost as much on mental attitude as on physical ability...
...cultured, while the Latin Americas may now see that the supposedly hard-working Yankees actually do know how to sit back and live. These benefits may be nullified, however, by the recommendations of America's athletic Bernard Baruchs. While Russia is currently presenting itself as the essence of gentlemanly sportsmanship, America's coaches are stressing their newly discovered political responsibility, adopting the eager-beaver attitude of the Soviet Union and lamenting the fact that our social system doesn't breed Amazons. Soon IBM machines will be clicking in Washington, and selected Harvard freshmen will be abducted to Dartmouth...
...next October when the Crimson meets Centre again. It will be a fight from start to finish. It will prove furthermore that the South as well as the East can produce a machine of eleven real football players; it will bring to Cambridge a group of men to whom sportsmanship is second nature; it will cement the good feeling between Harvard and the South...