Word: bamboos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...contempt. China is at the same time a modern country of exquisite civility and, for now, past its sanguinary internal disruptions, of eminent practicality. The People's Republic, urgently in need of foreign funds, technology and support, has only in recent months begun to lift the Bamboo Curtain for Americans; 15,000 U.S. tourists will have visited the mainland by year...
...Association (36,000 members), the National Police Agency is considering a ban on model guns too. The police are fed up, because holdup victims cannot tell the difference between a model pistol and the genuine article. If the ban succeeds, robbers may have to resort to rubber knives and bamboo bludgeons...
...broke through the flesh. The bone, gaping from Day's arm like a jagged tooth, remained untreated for four months-until Day's half-dead cellmate, Navy Lieut. Commander John McCain, another torture victim, regained consciousness sufficiently to fashion, out of his own bandages and a stray bamboo stick, a cast...
...also raises the dilemma of how the caddie is best to convey one's clubs. The most satisfactory solution to my mind would be to adopt the method illustrated by the caddies at the Royal Hong Kong Golf Club in Fanling, Hong Kong. By dangling both bags on a bamboo pole across his shoulders, the caddie could avoid setting the bags down in the snow for each club selection without undue physical strain...
...bamboo poles, biodegradable tees, and ammonium chloride balls allow the winter golfer to frolic in the snow in relative comfort. Such devices, of course, might alarm golfing traditionalists. Died in the wool golfers would be likely to concur with the judgment of "Firey," the legendary Musselburgh caddie, who when the first golf bag was introduced in Scotland in 1888 remarked that it was "nae gowf...