Word: golfed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Within minutes, the western sky has turned a stunning emerald green, and huge hailstones are smashing on the truck's roof. It is 6:16 p.m. Moore pushes east as the hailstones, some of them literally the size of golf balls, threaten to crack our windshield. After plowing through a curtain of hail and rain, the truck turns south and breaks through the devastating storm. As it rolls through tiny Covington (pop. 605), every light in town blinks off and on, twice, because of storm-blown power lines. "Look for an escape route," Moore warns Moyer...
...addition, there were outlays for brightening up the estate for the Nixons and making life more comfortable: a flagpole, for example, cost $2,329; golf carts ran to $15,929; and a bill for decorative pillows came...
...death threat will add to the jitters of the Shah and his family, who are luxuriating in a heavily guarded compound on Paradise Island in the Bahamas. The Shah's daily routine of jogging, swimming, golf and tennis was disrupted three weeks ago by a power failure; his panicky guards believed that a death squad from the Palestine Liberation Organization had attacked. More recently, a group of Bahamian intellectuals has been agitating to have him expelled. Last week one of his close confidants told TIME that the Shah was considering a permanent haven in a Latin American country, perhaps...
After the Florida Bible Institute, and a lifelong commitment to Christ that he made one night on the 18th green of the school's golf course, Graham knocked around as a Youth for Christ evangelist. In 1949 he went to Los Angeles, pitched his "Canvas Cathedral" and began the eight-week crusade that abruptly launched him, at 31 , toward his great spiritual celebrity. William Randolph Hearst, heartened by the anti-Communist messages that Billy packed into his sermons, sent his editors a memo: "Puff Graham." Hearst reporters descended on the Canvas Cathedral; before long, A.P., I.N.S., TIME, Newsweek, Quick...
...worldwide crusades has been personally beheld by more people than anyone else in history. He has gone on, preaching to his multitudes the snares and sinfulness of the world and the glories of heaven to come. "Boy," he once said, "I sure hope they have a golf course up there...