Word: golfs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...morning, Price reports. Often, the former president will work on the memoirs--which are now in their final stage of editing--until after midnight. Three or four days a week, Nixon breaks away from his literary efforts for a couple of hours to play a quick nine holes of golf with his government-paid chief of staff, Lt. Col. Jack Brennan...
...loyalty to the anti-Reaganites who supported him in 1976. In contrast to Reagan's courting of the party organization-traditionally dominated by conservatives-Ford has been playing the elder statesman. By Christmas, he will have logged more than 200,000 miles lecturing college students, playing in golf tournaments, and attending public gatherings. His strategy is to stay as prominent as possible, so that he can move fast if Reagan announces his candidacy. Observes David Liggett, Ford's 1976 coordinator in California: "It's like they are playing a giant game of chicken, speeding at 110 m.p.h...
...Mirando was taken back to the operating room, where his femur (thigh bone) cracked as the surgeons tried to remove the dislocated prosthesis. Unwilling or unable to proceed further, the doctors sent out a rush call to the sales representative for the device, William MacKay, 34, who was playing golf at the time...
Similarly, Woods may say hello to someone on a bus, but may not sit down to continue the conversation; that would be more than an incidental meeting. Woods may play golf, but only in a twosome, and he must keep a reasonable interval" in the clubhouse between himself and other members. He may not enter his newspaper office or his children's schools, but may go to a library. He may attend Mass (he is a devout Roman Catholic). He may visit a theater to see a movie, but can he go to a concert? The local chief magistrate...
With things going so badly for the harriers, Sheehan and Co. might as well have stopped awhile and rummaged in the woods for some golf balls themselves. You can usually find some vintage Spaldings because Van Cortland golf course, founded in 1896, is the oldest public links in America...