Word: gems
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...Shore said. “It was definitely an opportunity for someone on their game to score well.”When golfers imagine the sand hills of North Carolina, the fabled U.S. Open venue Pinehurst usually springs into their minds first. Yet, architect Donald Ross created another golfing gem in the 6515-yard Mid Pines Golf Club, whose relatively shorter length still demands players to hit a full complement of shots to get through eighteen holes at par.A tweaked back forced Shore to withdraw from the tournament before its start, but junior John Christensen, who originally intended to play...
Military officers are notgenerally made for the limelight. But in 1970 lifelong Army officer Elizabeth Hoisington became an all-out celebrity--and a p.r. gem for General William Westmoreland, who was shown kissing her in newspapers across the country--when she and Anna Mae Hays became the first two women to attain the rank of brigadier general. Before that achievement, she ran the female military arm, abolished in 1978. During her tenure, women's positions, once largely secretarial, expanded to include jobs in air-traffic control and intelligence...
...tradition of rugby league films. This Sporting Life, the 1963 English production starring Richard Harris, is regarded as the only really good one. Now it has company. The Final Winter, made on a shoestring by a bunch of novices, including co-directors Jane Forrest and Brian Andrews, is a gem, a triumph for adherence to two axioms of football: keep it simple and get the little things right. Its backdrop is league in early-1980s Sydney, but after a burst of action in the first 10 minutes, it shines as a drama exploring the limits of loyalty and what...
...value of local independents staying in the square,” she said. “Paradiso was a gem with a loyal following and we feel badly that they’re no longer here...
...enticed by glowing descriptions of the street-sold dumplings in a New York Times article, we browsed the vendors near the intersection cited in the review. The first hit was a scallion pancake that set the standard for all scallion pancakes to come. This gem was still hot, full of flavor, and perfectly textured. It didn’t matter that the plastic wrapping almost melted from the heat of the pancake; this was seriously good eating...