Word: hole
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Palmer had been making rough work of it, spraying shots all over the tough, tree-dotted course at the Country Club of Detroit. He had to go through a tiring 39-hole match, longest semifinal in the tournament's records, to top Cleveland's Ed Meister, onetime Yale golf captain. In the finals, however, Palmer settled down. He shot the first four holes in par. But it was a discouraging performance. Sweeny's deft and delicate putter earned him three birdies and sent him three-up. Still, it was Sweeny himself who gave Palmer hope...
Crooked Fence. Said he: "Some of them saw a great inflation . . . They have been proved wrong. Others then started preaching depression, depression." The President was reminded of Lincoln's story of "a farmer [who] built a fence that was so crooked that every time a pig bored a hole through it, he found himself on the same side from which he started...
Neither Eakins nor Homer cared a rap for the quality thought indispensable in Europe: art which conceals art. They achieved something rarer: honesty which may transcend art. The heart of summer, the gleam of flesh against green foliage, are conveyed in Eakins' Swimming Hole. And a man looking at Snap the Whip can remember what it felt like to get out of school and run barefoot on the grass...
...savage attack of a 2-lb. prairie dog on a 2,000-lb. buffalo that ventures too close to the prairie dog's hole...
Things get going in Desert Hole, N. Mex. (elevation 1 ft.), where Jerry is the flag-stop-station attendant and Dean is what barely passes for an M.D. One day Jerry, stranded in the desert, spots a used-car dump and goes helling home in a rod that is hotter than he knows-a car used to test the effects of radiation in an atomic explosion at nearby Los Alamos and still labeled "Radioactive." Actually, the contamination has worn off. but when Jerry sees the label he collapses...