Word: golf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nowadays I carry on as before. I watch my weight-just eating less, not dieting. I don't play golf, but I could if I rested after each hole-but that's not much fun. I've taken up woodwork-carpentry, that sort of thing. I do a little light fishing, a lot more reading; I play gin rummy, poker, bridge. My work is better since I concentrate more on the main job; I can take four ounces of liquor in a day if I want it . . . I don't lead a subdued life...
...mail-order house. But Millionaire Halas will never get over his pigskin heart. "You know," he said sadly last week, "there is no greater thrill in life for me than winning a National League game. Other men may get theirs from liquor, or dope, or girls or golf. For me, nothing can equal winning a football game...
...Monday the Council will consider a major recognition petition from the cross country team, and may soon renew one from the wrestling team. If the University follows the lead of other colleges--reducing the sports of sailing pistol, rifle, and skiing to the club status that rugby has--fencing, golf, lacrosse, squash, and tennis would still have the right to petition...
...allowing a breakdown in segregation in the intimacy of the playground." Said Talmadge: "I think the court of last resort is the people, and if the people don't comply, there's little they can do about it. It will probably mean the end of most public golf courses, playgrounds and things of that type." South Carolina's Governor George Bell Timmerman Jr. said flatly: "There will be no mixing of the races in our state parks...
...knowledge questioned the supremacy in the law of the U.S. Constitution or the interpretations of that document by the Supreme Court of the U.S. I see no reason to do so now." Atlanta's Mayor William Hartsfield was less positive about obeying the court's golf-course order. "Out of it all, I have no doubt that Atlanta, as usual, will do the right thing," said he. Hartsfield's words gave little assurance to Dr. Hamilton M. Holmes, 71-year-old Negro physician, who, with his two sons, had gone to court to win the right...