Word: golfed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Quayle made a promise to the American people before the vice-presidential debate: "You're going to see the real Dan Quayle." Until Wednesday night, many Americans thought the real Dan Quayle was a sunny, overconfident, high- spirited young man who had spent more time on the golf links than in the library. But the Dan Quayle at the debate was a different person: a grim, wooden, frightened fellow who had stayed up late memorizing answers for the big test. So nervous were Bush's handlers that they denied Quayle any chance to be spontaneous, transforming him instead into...
...claimed that his J.F.K. line was spontaneous, it had been germinating for days. The weekend before the debate, the Bentsen camp descended on Austin for practice sessions. In a vacant basement bar adjacent to the Four Seasons Hotel, they set up a mock debate stage. Congressman Dennis Eckart, a golf tee stuck jauntily behind one ear, played Quayle. But Bentsen was nervous; he was not having fun. (They did not realize it at the time, but Bentsen aides mistakenly positioned him at the wrong lectern.) Then at one point Eckart, playing Quayle, compared himself to Kennedy. Bentsen became irritated. According...
Thus Thailand is becoming an interlocking network of imported dreams. Men from the gulf have turned parts of Bangkok into a pirated version of a hookah- and-hooker Arabian Nights fantasy; Japanese visitors fill the golf courses, serene in the knowledge that a week of putting, together with planes and hotels, will cost less than seven days on a course at home. And many Westerners trek into the hills around Chiangmai to live for a few days with the local tribes, sleeping in huts and savoring , if only from a distance, the village opium...
...Harvard men's golf team capped off its fall season by tying for 19th place in the New England Intercollegiate Fall Golf Championship...
...team field completed play in the two-day tournament late Wednesday on the New Seabury Golf Course at New Seabury, Mass., with favored University of Hartford taking the championship...