Word: golfed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strong and probably conscious parallel between the physical exertions of his next to last full day at the Humphrey plantation and the day he had spent in Denver exactly five months earlier-the day before his heart attack. (In Denver, on Sept. 23, Ike shot 27 holes of golf. On the next to last day of his Georgia vacation he shot 18 holes of golf, hunted for two hours, sat up till 12:30 playing bridge.) There was an almost clinical detachment in his behavior on the golf course, where, ignoring his doctors' recommendation that he stick...
...14th place in a field of 15, Florida-bred Needles threaded neatly through openings on the second turn, swung wide to come around horses and win the $148,800 Flamingo Stakes at Florida's Hialeah race track by 2¾ lengths from the 24-10-1 long shot, Golf Ace. Given a five-pound weight advantage simply for running on a home-state track, the son of 1951 Kentucky Derby Winner Ponder was still impressive enough to become a front-runner in the winter book for this year's Kentucky Derby...
...cadets at the U.S. Mer chant Marine Academy at Kings Point, L.I. were off to a carnival rather than to regular evening mess. They wore golf caps, bowlers, toppers and turbans. They marched into the mess hall with huge signs saying "Move Over, Annapolis" and "Our Ship Has Come In." The cadets had good reason to celebrate. Last week President Eisenhower signed a bill making Kings Point the nation's fifth permanent service school, thus putting it on a legal par with Annapolis, West Point, and the Air Force and Coast Guard Academies...
...late 1920s, none was more ornate than the Boca Raton Hotel & Club, 42 miles north of Miami. Put up by Utilitycoon Clarence H. Geist as the world's flossiest private resort, it cost $10 million, had 450 rooms, indoor and outdoor swimming pools, two 18-hole golf courses, dozens of fountain-filled gardens and a beach-front cabana that is bigger than most hotels. During the Depression, Geist ran Boca Raton as his private hobby, happily paid its staggering deficits. But when he died in 1938, the club fell on hard times. The Army Air Forces used...
...also busy developing the island of Eleuthera, 75 miles east of Nassau in the Bahamas. There, Davis, who has five other homes on the mainland, has already built himself a palatial hideaway on a 30,000-acre property, has opened up a harbor, built an airstrip, an 18-hole golf course designed by Robert Trent Jones, and 30 guest houses. He hope to turn Eleuthera into a tropical paradise for "rich millionaires" who do not want to rub elbows with the mere millionaires at Boca Raton...