Word: drivingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Warren Burger, 40, a husky, handsome St. Paul lawyer who is Stassen's chief of staff. An idea man with tremendous drive, he runs the national headquarters in Minneapolis, makes all but major policy decisions for the boss...
Since the Committee's February 29 recommendation for an auditorium addition to Memorial Hall together with a basement student-activities center, Saltonstall declared, investigation has shown that "these memorials could not be constructed except for a sum considerably above" the specified $750,000 limit of a memorial fund-raising drive...
...just about to tee off in last Summer's New York championships when a friend rushed, up and told him of Donaldson's laudatory comment. One minute later, he dubbed his drive before a gallery of 150 people. "Boy, was I mortified while walking the 40 feet up to my ball," Rick ruefully admits. Rick has little to say about the possibility of a professional golfing future...
...wide fairways that are lined with lofty pines and handsome flowers. On the 15th hole, when his ball went in a ditch, Harmon shed shoes & socks and went into the water to play it. At the 17th (similar to the famous 14th at Scotland's St. Andrews), his drive hit a tree and caromed off into a roadway. But Claude recovered, made one over par on the hole. He got another 70. The early pacemaker, Lloyd Mangrum, had run afoul of Augusta's notorious greens, and dropped behind. Playing those greens was like putting down a marble staircase...
...Shot. As the last round began, Harmon had a two-stroke lead, and reacted to the pressure by turning taciturn. The only man with a good chance to catch him was husky, hard-luck Chick Harbert, famous for tremendous drives and poor finishes. But Harbert fell apart. Harmon, a little more on edge now, showed it by biting his lips and asking the crowd after a drive: "Where is it? Where is it? Did anyone see my ball...