For months, the anti-bullfighting lobby has been trying to have the pastime outlawed in the city, he says.
The pastime of punting - propelling a long, flat-bottomed boat along the river - is popular in both cities.
While many top canoeists have often been brought up by paddling parents, Baillie's uncle took the pastime to new heights.
Fry, the president of the International Skiing History Association, explained that the pastime of skiing grew rapidly between 1955 and 1965.
He said he was introduced to the pastime in the aftermath of a hurricane during the 1950s when his dad couldn't find anyone else to clear the debris.
The pastime employs 200, 000 Spaniards--more than 1% of the workforce.
They know that hunting will never again be the pastime it once was, and as more Americans move from rural areas to the suburbs and cities, their natural market withers.
The popularity of the pastime is reflected in the smash success of two comprehensive new field guides published this fall, The Sibley Guide to Birds and Birds of North America (see sidebar).
The name came from their billet, often referred to as the Hash House, where they'd eat their monotonous corned-beef dinners, and the pastime they came up with was a wilder version of a British paper chase.
But perhaps the biggest threat to the market leader would be a further WTO ruling or, ironically, a change of heart in America that led to the legalisation of online gambling there and allowed established firms from the pastime's spiritual home to enter the market.
History tells us that Babe Ruth left Baltimore, going forth to save the National Pastime after the World Series in 1919 was fixed.
Today, golf is the country's most popular recreational activity, beating out even the national pastime of hockey, according to the country's statistics agency.
While the NFL and NBA have largely caught up to the national pastime in terms of current popularity, no memorabilia item goes for anything close to the top baseball items.
For this, and for disrespecting the national pastime with his alleged deceptions, fans want his contrition.
This is the low-tech pastime of the century, and it's a lot easier than shooting a 76 at Winged Foot.
Even the national pastime had taken on a melancholy cast: in June, Yankees slugger Lou Gehrig had been diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, cutting short his extraordinary career.
Now the national pastime's pooh-bahs should focus on two issues.
Before football was invented and surpassed baseball as the national pastime, people actually spent time praying and reflecting about their week and sang songs with other friends and neighbors.
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In Isfahan, Iran's third city, morality police have recently stopped unmarried couples from walking the streets together, drivers from turning up music in their cars, and girls from the wicked pastime of riding bicycles.
For centuries, the violent battles between the birds have been a favorite pastime for the farm workers and ranchers who live along the coast.
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To borrow an image from the country's other favorite pastime, over the next quarter century, Spanish soccer transformed from a bull into a matador.
But more importantly, it showed gamers that when a gamer is at the helm, our favorite pastime can live on the big screen in new and inventive ways.
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In the high Middle Ages, chess became a popular pastime for the upper crust, both men and women.
Clearly, pounding the pavement is a popular pastime in Boston, where the biggest annual event is a marathon.
While many a fortune has been made scavenging the wrecks, it is a pastime best left to the professionals.
"We had a tough time trying to take the U.S. national pastime to court in the U.S., " he says.
While indulging in the perennial teenage pastime of hanging out, Mr. Loughner would suddenly embark on odd discourses "he didn't make sense, " Mr. Osler said and then just as suddenly clam up.
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It's not often you get the chance to try out a Winter Olympic sport, so when given the opportunity to have a go at the relatively harmless pastime of curling, we were ready and willing.
Part of the pleasure of the book is that in itself it represents a common British pastime the making of lists.
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