Word: bogeyed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blew up on the front nine with a 41 before the clubhouse turn. He strung together bogeys at the start and smothered a drive into the tree-canopied rough along the seventh. He fluffed his second shot into a bunker and knocked his chip over the green for a double bogey. Vik turned things around from the twelfth hole on, after exploding from a sand to within three feet...
...were that ideal. But he finds himself hopelessly stymied, since that ideal doesn't correspond at all to his own inner reality. Allan Felix in Play It Again, Sam is haunted by the specter of Bogart--when his wife leaves him, he can only ask himself what Bogey would have done. Bogey would have mended himself with the aid of a little bourbon and soda. But, Allen reflects, if he himself has "one thimbleful of bourbon, I run out and get tattoed...
...Simon has more than one bogey in his bag of tricks. From various studies done by the Federal Reserve Board, Simon estimates that the demand for capital between now and 1985 will amount to more than $4.5 trillion. He anticipates particular demand growth in the field of energy production, with heavy requirements also seen for business efforts to meet government clean air and water and occupational health and safety standards. But if one breaks that mammoth number down into year by year figures, with allowances for inflation and for economic growth between now and 1985, $4.5 trillion is not quite...
...great diplomats know, however, success is not a permanent state. One double and one quadruple bogey on the front nine spelled disaster, and not even a sub-par 35 on the back nine could turn the tables yesterday...
...conservative critics is no excuse for Harvard's failure to press forward more quickly in its attempts to raise the position of blacks here. Those who think that powerful institutions like Harvard do not have to make special efforts to make up for past sins cannot serve as bogey men to deflect those institutions from pressing on with fair and effective programs...