Word: fife
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last stop before the city of St. Andrews in the kingdom of Fife is the east coast and Muirfield, the most elegant estate on the Firth of Forth. No trees, no burns (creeks), 165 sand traps. It is raining sideways, and one of the caddies is a matron named Heather, who replies in confusion to every profane mention of the stuff. Keep a grip on the club, get a grip on yourself. The Honorable Company of Edinburgh Golfers goes back to 1744 and leather golf balls filled with boiled feathers. But the club still hasn't got around to building...
...true. And I'm sorry to be leaving my cherished friends. Perhaps, when you think of me, you could hum a few bars of the Rutger Furry Fan Club Anthem--do you still remember? It seems so many years ago; but I can still hear the fife and drums wafting through the early morning sunshine...
...Phoenix-area convention bureau reports that because of Mecham's policies, 45 conventions have been canceled, costing some $25 million in lost revenue. "I think he's had a really adverse effect on the business climate," complains J. Fife Symington III, a major Phoenix developer. "You'd have to live here to appreciate this comedy of errors...
...spite of tensions, the agenda of costumed pageantry, fife-and-drum music, jet overflights and solemn oratory came off with scarcely a hitch, thanks in part to security arrangements so heavy that when the congressional special rolled into Philadelphia's 30th Street station, eight or so diners found themselves imprisoned for 15 minutes in a nearby McDonald's after police blocked all the restaurant's exits...
...intimidated INS, which intends to continue prosecuting clergy and church workers who offer sanctuary to illegals. Another trial is scheduled to begin next month in Brownsville, Texas; Defendant Stacey Merkt is a Methodist. But the prosecutions, far from stemming the movement, have given it new prominence. Says Presbyterian Fife: "Tens of millions of Americans who never knew this was an issue now know about it. And they know it is a major church-state issue, probably the major one of the 1980s...