Word: greene
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Basically, Halberstam has provided a thousand politicians and media junkies with Rolodex-files-full of inside stories and one-liners to try out on the chicken-and-green-beans circuit. The Powers That Be piles detail after detail, quickie quote on top of one-liner, superlative onto cliche, in an attempt to construct the ultimate tower of power. As in the case of an earlier group of tower builders aspiring to heaven, however, a divine curse (or was it hubris?) turned all the words into babble...
Reading from "Golden Spark, Little Saint," the Story of St. Foy of Agen--Hannah Green, professor of Writing, Columbia University, Agassiz House...
After this bit of luck, Raffi began to zero in on the tin with his putter. He drained a 20-footer for par on nine, got another one-putt par on the 11th green that is ringed by towering pines with black velvet trunks, and then saved bogey by holing a ten-footer...
Zito, a squat, roly-poly fellow with a wristy swing, made up for his lack of length with an exquisite short game. On the 202-yd. par three 16th, Zito was 30 yards short of the green with a two-iron while Henley and Alexander both reached with four-irons. But Zito's chip hit the pin and lodged three inches from...
Henley, whose composure was unshakeable throughout the tourney, played well nigh invincible golf. He approached the 477-yd. par five 18th hole on Friday needing a birdie to finish at par. He decided to go for the green and bombed a 245-yd. shot with his Pederson three-wood that drifted over the bunker guarding the right side of the green and the ball landed 15 feet from the pin. After that resounding shot, he had no trouble making his four...