Word: ben
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...golf course Samuel Jackson Snead, 37, professes to be afraid of three things: lightning, a downhill putt and Ben Hogan. Last week, as he slouched on to the first tee in the playoff of the $15,000 Los Angeles Open, there was' no lightning-just fog and Ben Hogan...
...toss, stepped up to the ball and swung. The ball whistled down the middle of the mist-shrouded fairway and disappeared from view. Sam pursed his lips, blinked his grey, button-bright eyes and was satisfied. Then bantam Ben Hogan, the little man who had come back to haunt him, stepped forward. To the dismay of 4,500 assembled witnesses, Ben hit one that hooked crazily and landed in a ditch out of bounds...
...hour and three-quarters later, as he walked off the 18th green with a swollen 76, Ben was four strokes down, and Sam Snead was the winner. Ben Hogan smiled wanly at the crowd and said: "I'm terribly sorry I didn't play better today . . . I hope I'll give you a better show here next year...
...have learned something from the past failures of Britain and France, who supported monopoly groups in these countries, but we may be making the same mistake in the Arab oil producing states by befriending the leaders like Ibn Ben Saud and forgetting the people, Frye said...
This week, after another 69 in the third-round, Blazin' Ben moved into the last day's play in second place, just two strokes behind Tournament Leader Jerry Barber of Pasadena. Coming back had been uphill too, but Ben was back...