Word: byronic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...16th hole, for example, an alert cameraman caught Jack Nicklaus opening his club face on an approach shot. That, explained Commentator Byron Nelson, was for backspin. And sure enough, the ball hit beyond the pin and rolled back, back-whoops, too far. When he got to the par-five 18th hole, Nicklaus was four strokes behind, so he audaciously decided to go for an eagle. His second shot landed on an impossible rock perch at the top of a sheer drop down to the ocean. A forehanded ABC crewman was in the right place with a hand-held camera...
...BYRON VON KLOCK New Haven, Conn...
...looked back on the past of others-Shelley, Byron, Dickens, Proust, Disraeli-and returned them to life in supremely readable biographies. When he died last month at 82, Maurois was best remembered and eulogized for those biographies. But he possessed other skills, as is shown by his Collected Stories, published a few days after his death. He was a distinguished partisan in the only warfare the French ever enjoyed, and the only fight Americans think that they have pressed hard-the battle of the sexes. "One must make the choice between loving women and knowing them; there is no middle...
...happened in Chicago, in 1965. There, just two weeks before Christmas, a spinster lady named Alice Byron Atwood died at 85, leaving behind a reputation for warmness and generosity...
...scientists are impressed, and hope to stage similar tests in the Great Plains hail belt. Physicist Byron Phillips, a hail expert for the U.S. Environmental Science Services Administration at Boulder, suggests that inexpensive ; rockets might be even more efficient. Eight rocket stations, he says, could protect the entire state of Kansas...