Word: golfed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...numbers of participants proved another problem. Every morning at 9:30, a procession of 100 scholars and celebrities straggled out of the Princeton Inn, a long Georgian mansion sitting on the edge of a golf course, and wound its way through the Gothic arches of the Princeton yard to Whig Hall, the Princeton debating hall. There the group reassembled around chains of green-felted tables. The first day the tables were arranged in a horseshoe, which left some members separated by as much as 30 yards. The next day, the conference directors rearranged the setting trying to inject some sense...
...drinks his beer, eats heartily and writes his autobiography. In Paris, Père Boulogne uses his hospital room, after seven months, to celebrate his private Mass and work on his book on St. Thomas Aquinas. DeBakey's patient, William C. Carroll, plays pitch-and-putt golf in Arizona. A Shumway patient, Mrs. Virginia Asche, is at home and doing her own housework three months after the transplant...
...BOGEY MAN, by George Plimpton. What happened to George as a bogus touring golf pro should not happen to a golf ball, but while absorbing his routine athletic humiliations, he manages again to write knowingly and entertainingly from inside a major sport...
...Nixon was almost comically extravagant in his praise. The Marylander, said Nixon, "is a man with brains. He's a man of very great courage. He doesn't wilt under fire." Meanwhile, Agnew campaigned in Virginia, then flew home to Maryland, where he relaxed on Election Day on the golf course, and gave a party in Government House, the official mansion, for 150 campaign workers...
Lefty's Fury. Plimpton spends his nights talking over golf lore with other tour members and reads an extensive list of golf books, all of which only confuse him more but give the reader comic insights into this special form of sportsworld hysteria. There are tales about golfers attacked by rams on the course, golfers breaking their legs after mighty swings, distance records for balls rebounding off caddies' heads, and the inevitable stories about the golfer's rage. Some golfers knock themselves out in their anger at a missed shot. Some punish their clubs, threatening to drown...