Word: beare
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Every year when the azalea and eucalyptus bushes begin to bloom in the citrus belt, the winter golf tour gets underway and people begin to wonder if Jack Nicklaus will reassert his dominance or if the golden hours of the Golden Bear are finally winding down...
This winter Nicklaus took his time emerging from hibernation, as he missed the cut in the Hawaian Open and finished well back in the other events. The five-stroke win was the Bear's 61st PGA victory, which ties him on the all-time list with "the little colossus" Ben Hogan, behind Sam Snead...
Seventeen years later the Bear is still astounding the golfing world. Last Sunday's victory had nostalgic over-tones as Nicklaus was paired with habitually grim-countenanced and sable-clad Gary Player--the last two survivors of the "the Big Four...
Harvard administrators speak of setting college prices at the level "the market will bear." But consumers of Harvard educations are an atypical group. Even the roughly 40 per cent of Harvard's undergraduates who receive financial aid come from families with an average income of $18,000--roughly $5,000 more than that of the average American family...
...visitor. He just about memorized all available magazine and newspaper clippings about Vance and devoured a fat dossier, describing the American's personality and negotiating techniques, that had been prepared by Cypriot Archbishop Makarios, who dealt with Vance during the 1967 Cyprus negotiations. Restraining himself from the bear hugs with which he used to welcome Henry Kissinger, Sadat greeted Kissinger's successor as Secretary of State with warm handshakes and friendly grabs of his shoulders...