Word: arnolds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Night of Watching, Arnold...
...third round, Arnold Palmer had to play head-to-head with Nicklaus; Jack shot a 65 to Palmer's 67. On the last day, it was Dan Sikes's turn. For 14 holes he held his own; then he broke. On the par-four 15th, he drove into the rough and took a bogey. Nicklaus coolly collected his par. Finishing with a 16-under-par 272, one stroke ahead of Sikes, Jack picked up a check for $50,000 that boosted his official 1967 earnings to $156,748 and broke his own two-year-old season record...
...Topped only by last year's $280,000 P.G.A. National Team Championship won by Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer, who split first-prize money...
...smoking industrialist by day, the head of the Danish underground by night, and a skin-deep thinker on the side ("The whole world is a bloody sickness"). Bad Nazis perform the usual tortures, while protesting "We are a civilized people." Good Germans lament, "What a day we live in!" Arnold even has the chutzpah to have a Jewish housewife prescribe the hot-chicken-soup cure for an ailing dog. Worse, he blithely puts 1967 American words in 1943 Danish mouths: after deciding "that wasn't the name of the game," a member of the underground "made book with himself...
Occasionally, the cliches do part long enough to let through the eloquent facts that sustain the book. It is mainly those facts that account for its presence on the bestseller lists-and strongly suggest that Novelist Arnold might better have written straight nonfiction...