Word: formosae
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...nine holes to take a seemingly insurmountable five-stroke lead. Then, on the treacherous 17th hole on the rolling moonscape of the Royal Birkdale Golf Club, he ran afoul of one of the crater-like traps and took a double bogey. That left him just one stroke ahead of Formosa's surprising Liang Huan...
...spied a bulletin-board notice announcing tryouts for the 3rd Marine Division golf team. "Shucks," he told himself, "I know a little about that game." Qualifying for the team with a round of 66, he learned a lot more over the next two years playing in tournaments in Japan, Formosa and the Philippines...
...Chevrolet was mortally wounded. Police bullets killed both of them, for before Marighella could whip his gun out of his briefcase, he was riddled with five slugs. Two days later, Marighella was buried in pauper's grave No. 1106 in Sāo Paulo's Vila Formosa cemetery...
...Canada and Communist China, announced, "The Canadian government recognizes the government of the People's Republic of China as the sole legal government of China. Canadian Foreign Secretary Mitchell Sharp said that his country does not consider it appropriate either to endorse or challenge Peking's position on Formosa...
Other Cold War Resolutions make similar grants of authority. The Formosa Resolution of 1955, for example, still gives the President the legal right to go to war with Communist China in defense of Quemoy and Matsu. Progressive though they are, the repeals advocated by Mathias demonstrate the negative character of Congressional participation in foreign affairs...