Word: golf
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wrong. Zealots are dangerous; they are so convinced that they are right and you are wrong. This is what we saw in the Nixon White House. And discipline. I never saw anybody make it who did not have sufficient personal discipline to say, 'No, I cannot play golf. I have things to do.' Imagination, which is nothing more than a respect for history without undue reverence for it. How you get the sixth quality, the ability to get people to say 'I believe in you,' to inspire others to believe they can do more than they...
...amusing President. The incumbent has "at least two professional gagwriters on his staff -though he sometimes fluffs their lines -and is said to laugh heartily at Chevy Chase's pratfallen Ford impersonations. Ford himself sometimes cracks that his Secret Service contingent receives combat pay when he plays golf. The outcumbent used to tell campaign crowds a story about how, as a boy selling boiled peanuts in Plains, he found there were only two kinds of people in the world, "the good people and those who didn't buy any peanuts." But as Carter admitted to Mike Royko recently...
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos spared no expense to pamper his influential guests. They were housed in 14 shiny new glass-and-cement hotels fitted out with such amenities as outdoor golf ranges and waterfalls in the lobbies. Meetings were held in the dazzling, just finished $125 million convention center. To keep the finance ministers and bankers amused between sessions, Marcos and his wife Imelda also brought in an exhibit of ancient Egyptian treasures, the Soviet Union's Bolshoi Ballet and, from the U.S., Pianist Van Cliburn and Metropolitan Opera Soprano Montserrat Caballe. Even the shanties in the city...
...pouch, the navel-to-pubis scar and the virtually inevitable impotence that results from such surgery, Humphrey will have few reminders of his ordeal on the operating table. He will be able to eat whatever he wants, work vigorously and even engage in such noncontact sports as golf or tennis...
...Harvard golf captain Alex Vik completed the second round of play in the 72-hole World Amateur golf tournament yesterday. Vik is competing against the leading four amateurs from 60 nations over the grueling 7,500 yard Penina golf course in Portimao, Portugal...