Word: divot
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...appendectomy: he was "trying to take again into himself the miracle of the world, programming himself." The aged farmer of William F. Van Wert's poetic Putting & Gardening discovers peace without change. On a Florida golf course his son observes him "on hands and knees, lovingly replacing my divot on . . . the only garden that is left for him." Like most of the ten women writers represented, Leigh Buchanan Bienen examines the everyday. Middle-class marriage is the subject, and only her narrator is exotic in My Life As a West African Gray Parrot...
Rough playing conditions worked to Harvard's advantage in the late stages, as the choppy, divot-filled penalty circle made. Dartmouth's crossing passes bouncy and unpredictable. A five-foot hill on the southeast corner of the field further complicated matters. And rains before and during the contest slowed the ball and caused some unintentional acrobatics displays...
...Bogart Jackson hoped, he would be able to see snow. Bogart Jackson was a professional golfer, and December for him was just one more divot on the fairway of life. At 25, he was spending this Christmas as he had every other that he could remember--haunting driving ranges and practice putting greens, playing a few satellite tour events, reading Dan Jenkins golf novels, and waiting. Waiting to tee off, waiting to string three solid rounds together, waiting for the front-runners in qualifying tournaments to falter so that his score would earn him a TPA card, which would enable...
Radcliffe missed a golden scoring opportunity in the first half when crossed signals halted a two woman break-away, leaving striker Abbie Homans firing a divot of dirt on SMU goalie Lisa Druin...
...golfer knows, a bad lie is not a terrible whopper told at the 19th hole. On a course, it means the bad positioning of a ball-jammed behind a tree in the rough, stuck in a divot on the fairway, or confronted with spike marks on the green. Generally, a golfer must play his ball where it lies or take a penalty of added strokes if he chooses to move it. Among weekend golfers, the temptation is often strong to improve a lie surreptitiously, especially on the greens, where a player is permitted to lift the ball and wipe...