Word: hob
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While golf's high society was hob-nobbing on Magnolia Lane at the Augusta National this weekend, the Harvard golf team was taking a soggy stroll on the Yale golf course in the Big Three Match with Princeton and Yale...
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...strawberries bob, hob-nob with...
...homage to their peers. And although some of us tend to remain bored throughout this self-indulgent spectacle, we've been around long enough to realize that there are many who wolf this movie Maypo down. They love it, we suppose, because it's lavish and sequined and hob-nobbing and....well, the more self-congratulatory and decadent--come on, admit it--the better...
...mixed-doubles play and endure it only when caught. "You could play it in your tuxedo," says one. Why? Because, so the argument goes, women are slow. Another excuse is that most women had a deprived childhood?i.e., they did not get to throw a ball much, which plays hob later with the motion needed for a good serve. Some men will blandly generalize, in the face of all history, that women lack that killer will to win. Others will argue that unlike men, who in doubles usually feel ashamed if they play at a level so far below that...