Word: grass
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...GRASS...
...unhurried, gentlemanly, almost oldfashioned. Yet, in the pursuit of the little white ball, men find an extraordinary challenge to muscle and mind, the test of skill, and the thrill of chance-taking. They also find camaraderie and relaxation. To some, golf may merely mean the smell of freshly mown grass and the sight of the sudden, wind-blown hill. To some, it may just be a pleasing setting to sell insurance...
...This week 30 maintenance men swarmed over Baltusrol, shaving the greens to a regulation three-sixteenths-inch height while power mowers droned along the edges of the fairways, barbering the marginal rough to a 2½inch crew cut (in the deep rough-"tiger country" to the pros-the grass is five inches high and very thick). Workers unreeled nearly ten miles of rope, fixing it into place along the entire course with 2,100 stakes (for the first time in Open history the spectators are to be kept on the sidelines...
...aimed a daring shot right at the pin. He flubbed it; the ball landed in a fairway bunker. Trying desperately for the green, he slashed an iron shot that landed on an overhanging lip above a sandtrap, rolled back toward the sand and hung precariously in long grass. On his fourth shot, with one foot in the trap and one out, Snead overshot the green and fell into another bunker. Then someone told him he had to get down in two to tie Byron Nelson. He snapped: "Why didn't somebody tell me this before?" He was so rattled...
What is better in the Advocate does not balance what is worse. A dream-like story with a nightmare ending, Nowhere Special, takes first place by default in the short story class. In The Great Rake, Allen Grossman manipulates six words, cities, turn threat, casement, grass, world, into a poetic whole which is the best piece of creative work in the issue. As for the other poetry, two pieces by Walter Kaiser, from the Garrison Prize Poems, reveal a fine sense of imagery and a fluid style. Winifred Hare has written a sonnet...