Word: handkerchiefs
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...still explore the world, striking flinty sparks when they encounter in the newspapers old adversaries from the Kremlin or East Germany or Cuba. For 31 years Dick Helms fought the silent war with terrorists, killers, subversives, guerrillas and power maniacs who would have smashed their way to authority. Crisp handkerchief tucked in his glen-plaid breast pocket, shod in Ivy League loafers, Helms stayed a step or two ahead of them all. He was faster, sharper and, yes, at times more brutal. If he had not been he would have been fired...
Growing in the Job I respect a guy who can use his hands . . . to defend himself. I've done that all my life . . . Now I'm a real gentleman. Now I take my handkerchief out and slap you across the face...
...16th hole at Cypress Point is considered the most dazzling in the world. It is a par three that requires a sheer carry of 233 yards over what Crosby termed "mollusk country" to a pocket handkerchief-sized green situated on a rocky palisade. As Jimmy Demaret once said, "There is no relief. The only place you can drop the ball over your shoulder is in Honolulu." Only two men have ever made a hole-in-one on the 16th at Cypress Point. One of them is Bing Crosby...
Such slips are rare. The Goat, the Wolf, and the Crab raises troubling questions about the worth of inherited values; it engages the mind as well as the emo tions. The line between this novel and a three-handkerchief tearjerker is the hard edge of truth...
...back side, holding out for birdies on 12, 14, 16, and 17. On the 389-yard 12th, he needed only a sand wedge into the green after catching his drive flush. On the par-three 16th, Fitzgibbons sent his tee shot skittering just past the flagstick on the pocket handkerchief of a green and proceeded to roll in the comeback putt...