Word: hole
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...generally plays in the 80s with a concentration that banishes all other concerns. Though the rubbernecking crowds that bothered him last year were banned from the Newport Country Club this year, Ike's golf seemed to suffer from the stares of newsmen, who can watch the first six holes from the clubhouse. Press Secretary James Hagerty smilingly asked reporters not to follow the games too closely, but the ninth hole, a par four right by the clubhouse, continued to be a psychological sand trap worse than the course's 130 real ones, a place for bogeys and double...
...couldn't sleep last night") but philosophical ("I'd give anything to win the tournament, but I don't intend to spend my life trying to win it"). At the start, her swing looked flat, and Mrs. Porter had a three-up lead at the 18-hole lunch break, still led two-up after 26 holes. But she three-putted the 27th and Anne got her short game going better than ever. She birdied three of the next four holes (one with a brilliant 25-ft. putt) to take the lead. At the 34th hole, Anne cautiously...
...club bar usually makes up for food losses. But rare is the club that nets a dime on much else. Good clubs spend an average $2,300 per hole per year to keep up the golf course, another $1,000 to keep up each tennis court, etc., etc.-all of which are maintained for the pleasure of a relatively few members. The $100,000 swimming pool, open from May 30 to Labor Day, flows with...
...Francisco's oceanside Olympic Country Club lost $89,166 in the nine months ending June 30, more than a $100 deficit for each member. Olympic earned $55,241 on the bar and $7,635 from rooms; it fell into the hole on golf ($67,547), food ($23,062), dressing rooms and lockers ($4,754), also lost on general administrative expenses, the telephones and cigar stand...
...parody of Victorian melodrama. O'Neill once explained that he had trained himself as a playwright by reading "nothing but plays, great plays, melodrama" until "he was thinking in dialogue." Agnes, the convent-educated daughter of a painter, met him in a Greenwich Village joint called "The Hell Hole." As he saw her home that same evening, he said in a low, sure voice: "I want to spend every night of my life from now on with you. I mean this. Every night of my life...