Word: holes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This year he had campaigned with the fervor of a thirsty desert wanderer heading for a water hole. He had leapfrogged across the state in a helicopter, had done his best to get siren-tooting motorcycle escorts when campaigning by automobile. Texans had admired his glib, excited, high-pressure approach...
When the eulogies were finished, Andrei Zhdanov was lowered into a grave beside the Kremlin's wall and behind Lenin's mausoleum. It was a hole about equal in size to the living space Russian housing provides for the average Russian...
...Replied Billows affably: "Lady, I've got a nicely pressed suit in my locker -and I'll wear it tomorrow in my semifinal match." Stranahan had already muffed three easy putts, let it bother him so much that he began bending his tee shots. On the 13th hole, he hooked into deep rough, was in more rough with his second shot, struck a tree with his third, and conceded hole and match after his fourth barely reached the green. Billows' margin: an overwhelming...
Round Table Discussions: "[They are] . . . like boring a hole through the wall of a Turkish bath...
...Muny" has gone in the hole only twice in its history-once 30 years ago, when a flash flood washed away half the scenery and instruments on opening night, and once during the depression. Both times the backers were paid back within two years. One big reason is that their summer opera has become a family habit for St. Louisans-from grandma to the kids. Another reason-and perhaps a bigger one-is the quality of its performances. Even a foreign critic from Dallas recently admitted that St. Louis' Municipal Opera is to summer operetta companies "what the Metropolitan...