Word: golf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Antics are light, with a minimum of slapstick. The two young lawyers have a bout with two judges on the golf course, flounder on the floor of Miss Smith's darkened room, and rejoice happily in their own lack of brilliance. The dialogue is rapid and restrained--a mild spoof on the pomp and powdered wigs which characterize the British legal fraternity...
Saddened but stubbornly loyal, 15,000 British golf fans turned out on the Lindrick course at Worksop, near Sheffield, last week to watch their Ryder Cup pros wind up what promised to be a Gallipoli of golf. After a devastating afternoon of Scotch Foursomes (in which partners alternate strokes on the same ball), Britain's best were behind 3 to 1. The visiting Americans were favored to breeze through all of the eight remaining singles matches...
...rest of the U.S. team had no better alibis. "I think we overtrained," said Captain Burke (who, like all his men, swings a golf club for a living all year long). "We came here too soon and played ourselves out. Playing with the smaller British ball was also a mistake. I just don't know how you putt with that little ball...
...time when at least a small part of our nation is brooding pessimistically about the problems of golf, desegregation, and nuclear weapons, it is comforting to be shown, in The Green Man, that bombs...
...teenagers told this reporter, "Eisenhower is off playing golf at some fancy place, and telling the niggers, 'Well, boys, I hope you can make it.'" "Well, they ain't going to make it, and that's a fact," he shouted...