Word: augusta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill signed the original eight-point Atlantic Charter* aboard the U.S. cruiser Augusta off the Newfoundland coast in August 1941, Hitler's tanks had seized North Africa, and Japan was preparing its surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. Kissinger's new charter will be written-if it appears at all-in a less dangerous but infinitely more slippery time of prosperity and détente...
...carnival-like atmosphere surrounds this tournament, which gets its color from both the beauty of the course and the brightly-clad spectators. Augusta National is one of those rare golf courses that is as famous for its great difficulty as for the magnificent pines that tower over the numerous white dogwoods and banks of azelas...
...area residents and visitors for practice rounds in the first part of the week and even more people to the tournament that began on Thursday. All the condition surrounding the tournament--the weather, the festive atmosphere and the people--seemed to indicate that the Masters is golf's and Augusta's celebration of the return...
Looking at the gallery in Augusta, one would not be struck by the number of middle-age or older people or with the gallery's supposed knowledge of the game (which led Robert Trye Jones, Jr., former president of the Augusta National Golf Club, to call the golfing patrons of Augusta, "the most knowledgeable and considerate in the world...
...close of the opening round, two teenagers leaving the Augusta National had this exchange. "Hey, remember that eagle Hiskey got on 15?" "No, but look at this...