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Word: dogleg (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hazardous No. 8. At Pebble Beach, the hole that players feared most and the crowd most enjoyed was No. 8. It is a 425-yd. dogleg running around the edge of a steep cliff, with hazards to the right & left, and about 135 yards of salt water to go over. Lloyd Mangrum, playing the kind of golf that made him 1946's U.S. Open Champion, got his par. His final score for the 54 holes: 205, ten under par. Said Mangrum, collecting the $2,000 first prize:* "This is my week off. I'm playing here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bing's Party | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

...into Argentina, six serviceable Lancastrians (carrying only 13 passengers on the long Atlantic hop), and a staff that was ex-R.A.F. But the only point-to-point competition for B.S.A.A.'s 55-hour, $705 service so far came from Pan American's $921 dogleg via New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: The British Are Coming | 4/1/1946 | See Source »

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