Word: cypress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...could only advise that "the Democratic Party must stand firmly and forthrightly for the full enjoyment and protection of civil rights . . . firm and foresighted leadership might accomplish this without calling out the Army for help." Seated way back in the audience but standing out among the liberals like a cypress stump was Arkansas' Orval Faubus, who had flouted the courts and forced the federal call-out in Little Rock. Like a ghost at the banquet, he was a haunting reminder of the Democrats' major, explosive problem...
...greatest Americans of all time." said the announcer as he introduced Bradley to the crowd. "You don't expect me to hit the ball after that, do you?" asked the general. The routine was the same for all players. Daytime: a round on the lovely, exclusive course at Cypress Point, a crack at the demanding layout of the Monterey Peninsula Country Club, and then, for the pairs with the 40 best 36-hole scores, a playoff at Pebble Beach. Evening: a round of the parties that brightened every clubhouse and properly stocked private home from Carmel to Cannery...
...Road to Morocco. In spite of all the trimmings and the press of the unregimented crowd, most of the contestants turned in some flashy golf. Hope, teamed with burly Pro Mike Souchak, couldn't hit his hat and got lost in Cypress Point's tricky sand traps (on one hole a photographer ground his golf ball into the sand to make things a little tougher for picture purposes). He and Souchak failed to qualify for the final round. "I'm going snow-blind from sand," said Hope. "This is like The Road to Morocco...
...luckily remembered, the aged Emerson, a scant month before his own end, attended the burial on the arm of Charles Eliot Norton, also a future resident. From Indian Ridge, where Longfellow now slept as tranquilly as he did in his waking hours, we stumbled along Central Ave., to Cypress Ave., and then, trusting we were unobserved, skipped cross-country 'twixt stone and slab to the unforgettable Spruce...
Into Washington last week, after a brief golfing vacation at California's Cypress Point, flew the Republican candidate for President of the U.S., clearly willing and ready to start swinging on two months of hard campaigning. At the airport, spotting a sign that said WE CONSERVATIVE DEMOCRATS LIKE IKE, Dwight Eisenhower got off an apt remark for a Republican candidate in 1956. "You're not conservative," he said. "You're just discerning Democrats...