Word: golfed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...multiplied mightily, increasing their numbers to an estimated half a million today. But the state's human population also has been expanding rapidly, and contractors have been filling in swamps and marshes for real estate developments. The result: the once endangered species became an endangering one, venturing onto golf courses and into backyard swimming pools. Last year there were twelve unprovoked attacks by gators on humans. One victim, a man who had been cleaning weeds from his dock, died...
...took until 1975 to publish a set of regulations to govern application of Title IX. The provisions stopped far short of requiring a school to set up an equivalent women's team for every male one; but if a school had only one team in a noncontact sport, like golf or tennis, women had a right to try out for it. Schools did not have to let females take part in such contact sports as football, basketball, ice hockey and rugby. When it came down to the key question of money, the regulations were vague; they allowed more money...
They flock to the festival in four-wheel-drive pickups, station wagons and huge recreational vehicles for a couple of days of shopping for items that range from electrified fences and worm medicine to a $200 "rocking sheep" covered in natural fleece. Wolfing down golf-ball-size chunks of fresh lamb barbecue (at $3.50 a plate), they watch as skilled artisans turn piles of fleece into yarn with Rumpelstiltskin-like skill. After hours spent looking over the thickset Dorsets and Suffolks, fine-haired Merinos, goatish Barbado black bellies and exotic Karakuls on display, people whose only past experience with sheep...
...know perfectly well why I brought you here. Tell us about those two anarchistic bastards." So Benchley said, "Okay, I will, but this is a most unfunny matter." He then recounted the following incident: a friend of his had run into Judge Webster Thayer at the Worcester Golf Club. Thayer had presided over the Sacco-Vanzetti trial where they were found guilty. This made Thayer quite a celebrity; said he to Benchley's friend: "Did you see what I did to those two anarchistic bastards?" Benchley had submitted an affidavit to show that Thayer was something less than an impartial...
After graduation Paxton will work for an investment firm in Louisville before enrolling in business school. He's also getting married to his sweetheart form Paducah on June 24. The future Mrs. Paxton may be one of the few Paducans who does not play golf, but "Paducah" says "she's learning...