Word: golfe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...black powder into two grades of heroin: No. 3, the 40%-50% pure "brown sugar" favored for smoking, and fluffy white No. 4, 90% pure "stuff" for needle addicts. The dope is ferried to Europe by air, ingeniously cached in all sorts of objects-mah-jongg tiles, false-bottom golf bags, hollowed-out melons...
...gallant but futile uphill campaign against Carter. In Palm Springs, Calif., the President and his family were ensconced in a palm-shaded, 14-room villa owned by U.S. Ambassador to Belgium Leonard Firestone; it is part of a millionaires' development called Rancho Mirage. Ford worked at his rusty golf game at some of the swankest courses on the Coast: Thunderbird, La Quinta and Eldorado. "Relax," he told reporters. "Have a good time. No pressure." For the first time since he became President, his staff did not even refer to the journey as a "working vacation...
...which was then stuffed with boiled feathers. Enough feathers to fill a top hat were packed into each ball. The unreliable and easily rotted feathery endured until around 1848 when the discovery of gutta percha, an elastic gum found in the forests of Malaysia, sent shock waves through the golf industry...
...Golf was played with one all-purpose club until irons--called rut irons--were pioneered to excavate featheries from tracks and ruts. The gutty fostered the invention of the cleek, about the equivalent of the modern 2-iron...
...best known example of the enduring greatness of golf's champions is Gene Sarazen. When he was seventy-one, he played in the 1973 British Open at Troon, fifty years after his first appearance there. The dapper, knickerbockered Sarazen aced the 126-yd. hole known as the Postage Stamp because of its small green. He finished with a 79 and shot an 81 for his second round, sinking an explosion shot for a 2 on the Postage Stamp...