Word: ah
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...school teacher, Miriam Stevenson, 21, matched bust (36 in.), waist (24 in.), hips (36 in.) and kinetic attributes against the charms of 32 foreign entries and wound up as this year's Miss Universe, with the usual movie contract, a $4,000 convertible and assorted knickknacks. Burbled she: "Ah woke up with all those roses in mah room an' Ah thought for a moment somebody had died...
Brother Elias, scowling, to his side, Small-souled Elias, crying by book and candle This was outrageous! Had the monks no pride? Music at deathbeds! Ah, the shame, the scandal...
...Nelson. He snapped: "Why didn't somebody tell me this before?" He was so rattled that his game collapsed. He made the green on his fifth stroke, holed out in three putts that would have appalled a Sunday duffer, and pushed his way through the silent crowd muttering, "Ah threw it away. Ah threw it away." Why He Goes Wrong. Some experts attribute Snead's blowups to lack of intelligent planning. "If Walter Hagen could caddy for him [and call his shots for him]," Gene Sarazen once said, "he could win the Open and everything else...
...tournament golf. His first two drives landed in a stream, but Sam pulled himself together and finished in sixth place. That autumn he went to Florida. At the Miami Open he won $108 and signed a contract to endorse Dunlop golfing equipment for $500 and his clubs and balls. "Ah had $300 and ah was $800 rich," he recalls, rolling his eyes...
...said, "Gee, that's swell. How'd he do it-match or medal play?" After his first big splash in California, Snead saw his picture, a Wirephoto, in the New York Times. He was amazed. "Now how'd they ever get my picture?" he asked. "Ah never been in New York." The Big Money. To Snead, golf is strictly business. For relaxation he prefers hunting and fishing (he caught the world record bonefish, a 15-pounder, off Bimini...