Word: gooseneck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shot, the stock gag with his fellow pros is: "This won't hurt a bit... Ouch!" He has a loose swing, hits a long straight ball, steadies down under pressure like a real pro, works well on the greens with his unorthodox putter (a gooseneck with the blade extending forward from the shaft instead of backward...
Last week, with the help of a rusty old gooseneck putter, Bobby Locke collected his $5,000 guarantee and $2,000 besides. Other golfers-like Ben Hogan and Jimmy Demaret-refused to indulge in such Tam O' Shanter shenanigans as wearing numbers on their backs, but since there was money in it, Locke was willing. After 72 holes, he was twelve strokes under par and in a first-place tie with Ed ("Porky") Oliver. He went on to beat Oliver in a playoff, and to become the third biggest money winner on this year's pro golf circuit...
...knocked the gooseneck [rail fastening] off the life raft," he said later, "and dropped it to the water. When I hit the water I looked around for the raft. It was gone. I kicked myself away from the ship and swam aft, thinking I'd grab the rudderpost. Instead I hit the propeller. I thought to myself: 'Oh, oh, this is no place for me.' But the propeller was dead. I swam away from the ship. It must have been ten minutes later that I heard someone holler. It was Sparks [the radio operator]. He hollered...
...their ground. Where his line rested in the jungle was a secret. But the Japanese announced that they had already cracked it, forced the British to admit that they had driven across the Muar River only 100 miles north of Singapore. Furthermore the Japanese, by cutting across the narrow gooseneck above Malaya into Burma, dampened the Aussies' hopes that the Jap rear might be harassed...