Word: golfed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Symington is the first choice of Harry Truman's dwindling band of intimates and. as the man who has made no ene mies, stands No. 2 on nearly every other list. Last week handsome, athletic Stu Symington was playing golf (mid-70s) in Puerto Rico, still keeping his silence, still making no enemies. But there is a peril in his policy: if Symington has given no one reason to be against him. neither has he given anyone much reason...
...bullet in the back, a mine on the road, a bomb in a chocolate box-British civilians as well as soldiers were dying ugly deaths on Cyprus, and the British at home were getting into the kind of mood that approved the gallows on the golf course against the Mau Mau in Kenya. London's big popular newspapers demanded a "get tough" policy against the Greek Cypriot terrorists. Backbenchers in Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's Tory Party muttered that Britain's liberal Governor on Cyprus, Sir Hugh Foot, should be replaced by a military Governor-someone like...
...spent the night at the club's austerely furnished, dingy white lodge. Next morning he shot four more ducks, then took off to spend a weekend with his lawyer brother Edgar in Tacoma, Wash. On the agenda, if the leaky grey skies cleared up: a golf game. Odds-on to win: elder brother Edgar, who shoots in the low 70s, this year won the Pacific Northwest Seniors Golf championship...
...roughly the feeling experienced by the valedictorian of Wood-row Wilson H. S. when he discovers all the other valedictorians in his college freshman class. Golf-playing vice presidents, Army majors, men who never read anything weightier than Time suddenly find themselves thrown together to study, discuss, and (as one troubled AMP expressed it) "read, read, read...
...River Dam, rebuilt by the colonel after he found it crumbling 30 years ago, and Pottawatomie Park, on which Baker and the Public Works Administration matched funds to provide tennis courts, two swimming pools and a golf course designed by Robert Trent Jones...