Word: ashwood
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...Yastrzemski. What does one say? He is apart. He came to bat after Adair, and one took pleasure, even in his patient preparation. In the on-deck circle, two bats swirling around the shoulders, above the head in an ashwood ceremony of prayer and promise. Meticulous attention to every detail...
...from Caddy. Sam Snead was born and raised in Ashwood, a hamlet near the mountain resort of Hot Springs, Va. and its famed golf hotel, the Homestead. The five Snead brothers begged broken-shafted clubs from the Homestead caddy master, and replaced their splintered wooden shafts with whittled hickory sticks or old buggy-whip handles. Sometimes they carved an entire driver from a hickory sapling with a knotty root...
Susan spends her time being mad about English traditions. She leaps like a mating 'salmon when she hears the word "baronet." Then she bumps into one named Sir John Ashwood (Alan Marshal), complete with a family ghost. Sir John is eager to squire her Down Roman roads where Caesar's legions marched, And follow Chaucer's steps to Canterbury...