Word: hole
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Instead, the fall of the Laniel government in Paris (see FOREIGN NEWS) knocked still another hole in the West's armor, and exposed weaknesses both in Europe and Asia...
This year Americans will pursue 33 million rounds of golf. For the privilege, they will spend something like a third of a billion dollars on everything from wood en tees to gin & tonics on the 18th Hole...
Could the U.S. act to patch the hole? Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, in a series of speeches across the continent, laid down the five conditions for U.S. military intervention in Indo-China: I) "an invitation from the present lawful authorities"; 2) "clear assurance of complete independence to Laos, Cambodia and Viet Nam"; 3) "evidence of concern by the United Nations"; 4) "a joining in the collective effort of some of the other nations of the area"; and 5) "assurance that France will not itself withdraw from the battle until it is won." No one really thought these conditions...
Snead's most disastrous performance was undoubtedly the famed 18th hole at Spring Mill near Philadelphia in the Open of 1939. It has become a classic of a kind. His first shot hooked into the rough and left him with a sandy lie. Instead of playing a cautious game, Sam took a custom-made 2½ wood from his bag and aimed a daring shot right at the pin. He flubbed it; the ball landed in a fairway bunker. Trying desperately for the green, he slashed an iron shot that landed on an overhanging lip above a sandtrap, rolled...
...Greenbrier Open in 1951, he had a tremendous moment on the 12th hole, a wicked, 535-yard par five. Sam's drive faded into the rough, but left him with a fair lie. He asked Curtis Griffith, his regular caddy, what club he recommended...