Word: hard-luck
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...Shot. As the last round began, Harmon had a two-stroke lead, and reacted to the pressure by turning taciturn. The only man with a good chance to catch him was husky, hard-luck Chick Harbert, famous for tremendous drives and poor finishes. But Harbert fell apart. Harmon, a little more on edge now, showed it by biting his lips and asking the crowd after a drive: "Where is it? Where is it? Did anyone see my ball...
...dark side of the ledger was an announcement by the doctors that Bob Kennedy, wingman who has been the hard-luck recipient of recurring injuries this season, will be out for the rest of the year. Second-line tackles Rocky Stone and Doug Bradlee were also listed as out for the Princeton tussle...
...still has no official title, but every day, after breakfast with her husband at 7, she shows up in her office, to work from 9 to noon receiving delegations of workers and trade unionists, hearing hard-luck stories and doling out advice and aid. A battery of secretaries is always on hand to take notes and handle a voluminous correspondence. In the afternoons, after a quick lunch with Perón, Evita is on her rounds again, visiting factories, addressing workers or distributing largess in the best bread-&-circus style...
...bounced out. Snead's putt was short. Officials got out a tape measure: Snead's ball was 30½ inches away; Worsham's was 29½ inches. Without any green-reading, Sammy putted quickly. He missed the cup by two inches. Once again hard-luck Sammy Snead had blown the championship. Young Lew Worsham stepped up, calmly stroked his ball...
Readers who look patiently will find authentic U.S. history in Holdfast Gaines, hidden under a growth of dialect as thick as dog hair and the most unabashedly bogus hard-luck love story since the days of J. Fenimore Cooper...