Word: green
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Himelman bayoneted the green with an eight iron and then administered the coup de grace when he sank the 15-ft. putt for his first birdie...
...dramatically drew to even par with an eagle on the next hole a la Gene Sarazen in the 1935 Masters. After crunching his drive on the downwind par five, he ripped a five iron onto the green and proceeded to kill a rattler when he snaked home a 40-ft. putt...
...almost carded another eagle on the par-five fourth. His five wood to the green flew long and was bunkered, but he almost holed the explosion shot coming back. He settled for a par after missing a tap-in for a birdie...
...Mother of Parliaments, last week's vote was a moment of almost unparalleled suspense. The dimly lit House overflowed as members crowded every inch of the green-padded benches or sat informally on the floor. In the galleries, peers from the House of Lords stood jammed together like asparagus stalks, while Tory wives watched like Upstairs, Downstairs'aristocracy, waiting for the vote that might cast them and their husbands once again into the front ranks. In the seven-hour debate that preceded the motion, Thatcher led off with a crisp but low-keyed assault on Callaghan for mismanaging...
People are familiar with the circumstances that produce "world food crisis" headlines in the early 1970's: several major crop failures, problems in the Green Revolution, program cutbacks in grain production in the U.S., Canada, and Australia. The U.S. dollar was devalued, causing increased demand for exports of feed grains and soybean meal. OPEC was formed, oil prices tripled, and fertilizer prices went up. The American consumer felt the pinch. Food costs more...