Word: golfed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hate watching Princeton play basketball. It's almost as much fun as listening to golf on the radio...
...realized earlier that style is sometimes as important as substance," he said. "How things are said is sometimes as important as what is said." Just one day later, the old Mecham promptly re-emerged, telling a startled audience how a group of Japanese "got round eyes" when they discussed golf. Embarrassed Arizonans could only hope that the end is in sight...
...weather's nice. And it does have a beach. And it's the foremost center of post-Niagra Falls schlock entertainment. There Falls schlock entertainment. There are about a zillion malls, movie theaters, race tracks, jai-alai frontons, bowling alleys, and combination mini-golf/go-cart/water-slide/batting cage/driving range/video arcade pleasure-mass-production-extravaganzas--plenty to keep one occupied for two weeks. And Grandma does have cable. And there are enough hot young high school-age granddaughters crisping themselves to perfection under the sultry Florida sun to keep you going back to the pool even though your feel the bridge of your...
...conventional wisdom. History has been kind to Dwight Eisenhower, virtually reversing Mark Antony's declaration that the evil that men do lives after them, the good is oft interred with their bones. All but forgotten now is the Eisenhower who spent much of his presidency playing bridge and golf, who collected handsome presents from rich friends, who presided over an era that is still synonymous with complacency and sloth. The same amnesia covers many of his policies. Forgotten, too, is the Eisenhower who was reluctant to enforce the Supreme Court's desegregation decisions, who would not stand up to Senator...
...Charles de Gaulle, Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu and even the Emperor, Bao Dai himself. There is nothing imperial about the hostelry today, but the mosquito netting hanging from the massive teak bed is skillfully patched and blessedly intact. A mile away horses graze near a sand trap on the golf course Americans designed and built for R. and R. sojourns...