Word: hole
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heart of this luminous voracity lies Trilling's abhorrence for "art for the sake of art." Art is a criticism of life, and reading is a criticism of life. And when you read this commentary you do not pigeon-hole, or classify as significant. You must answer any imperative demand to live in certain ways. When he talks about Dickens he does not say "what an interesting man," nor "what a monumental figure," nor "what a perceptive characterizer," but rather he demands do as Dickens did. A book is ultimately a call to reaction and then action...
...Singapore later in the week, went up the road to Kuala Lumpur, past villages circled with barbed wire, past check points and roadblocks set up against Commu nist terrorists. He arrived in Kuala Lumpur just as a terrorist hideout was uncovered only a two-iron shot from the ninth hole of the exclusive Selangor Golf Club (see "Ruining the Rough" in FOREIGN NEWS...
Last week a foursome at Selangor's ninth hole was surprised to see a squad of riflemen in the brush beside the fairway, muttered something about their ruining the rough. As the golfers prepared to tee off, there was a burst of rifle fire. The soldiers had come upon a long-sought hideout of the Ampang gang, a Communist military unit which once spread terror and death through Kuala Lumpur. In a brief fight three terrorists were killed. "It's shockin'," said a bald-headed British major. "I might have sliced one into the beggars' camp...
...Radio City buzzed last week with news of a major defection: J. Fred Muggs, 4½, the world's most successful chimpanzee, would quit NBC's Today on March 1 after spending all but ten months of his life as Dave Garroway's ape-in-the-hole. First reports said that Muggs was retiring because of laggard health and old age. "Nonsense," said an NBC spokesman. "He's leaving Garroway for the same reason Nanette Fabray left Sid Caesar. He thinks he can make more money...
Marriott arrived in Washington from little Marriott, Utah (named for his grandfather) thirty years ago with $3,000 capital (half borrowed) and the Washington franchise for a western root beer. With a partner he opened a hole-in-the-wall root-beer stand, the following year had two stands and no partner (he bought him out for $5,000). To make up for the drop in root-beer sales in winter, he installed a steam table and griddle, began selling tamales and enchiladas, changed his stores' name to Hot Shoppes. The chain kept expanding because the food was good...