Word: faded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...golf bug during his freshman year at the University of Florida. He learned the fine points of the game from his physical education instructor, Conrad Rehling, whom he still consults by telephone during important matches. Rehling straightened out Murphy's natural hook, made him develop a fade. "He taught me everything I know," says Murphy. "He saw I had fire and guts and desire and he taught me how to use them." By his sophomore year Murphy was "playing golf like there was no tomorrow," and by the time graduation rolled around, he had won the N.C.A.A...
...with Florida Tile Industries, which meant round after round of businessman's golf. "I looked around," he says, "saw that all I was doing was playing golf anyway, so I decided to turn pro." For a professional prospect, Murphy had two serious faults: weak irons and his fade. But Florida Tile President Jim Sikes agreed to sponsor him, and last fall Murphy entered the P.G.A.'s Approved Tournament Players' school. Only 30 of 111 aspirants won their A.T.P. cards; Murphy was among them...
...airlift runs a delicate course between the thunderstorms always encountered at night, and the radar-directed anti-aircraft fire which grows heavier as the storms fade. When he began flying for the outfit, it had six Constellations and one DC-7. of the Constellations, one was hijacked and flown to Madrid; a second was impounded when it made a forced landing on Malta (when its flight plan said it was going to New York). A third crashed in the jungle killing all aboard, and a fourth was blown up in Bisau, reportedly by a South African...
...eight states and parts of Canada, on the evening of Nov. 9, 1965, lights started to flicker and fade. The Big Blackout had begun. Before the Northeast groped its way back to normalcy, more than 4,000,000 man-hours of productivity were lost. The total is incomplete; it cannot be fully tabulated until Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? ends its run. Figure 1½ wasted man-hours per viewing...
...Majestic Hotel seven weeks ago. Unbending a bit, Thuy and his aides even took in the horse races at the fashionable Auteuil track in the Bois de Boulogne. They are also spending more and more time talking about real problems and gradually letting the demand for a bombing halt fade into the background. The U.S., on the other hand, is trying to demonstrate flexibility; it told the North Vietnamese last week that if they stopped trying to force Communism on South Viet Nam, U.S. troops would be withdrawn without question...