Word: holing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...five ships sunk* were almost directly beneath the point of detonation (probably 500 yards short of the aiming point, and only half as high), and their passing left a hole roughly half a mile in diameter in the target array...
...called it the greatest course in the world. St. Andrews golf course, perhaps the world's toughest, curls like a giant fishhook along the east Scottish coast, its fairways pocked by traps deep as bomb craters. Roads and railroads run in & around it, and on the famed 17th hole the players have to drive over an enormous coal shed. Last week, in the British Open golf championship, the local boys, who knew the course, the wind and the weather, had a lot in their favor...
Mulcahy, riding high in a fiveway tie for sixth after carding a neat 76 on his morning round, wilted under the sub-par pace of "Georgia" George Hamer, the eventual winner. Mulcahy, New England Intercollegiate titleholder, had a four round aggregate of 153-76-84-313 in the 72-hole contest...
...voiced Evelyn Knight, who has a pull in Manhattan's plushiest nightclubs second only to Hildegarde. She made a hit by singing with soft assurance such old-fashioned tunes as Grandfather's Clock and a streamlined version of Buffalo Gals called Dance with a Dolly ("with a hole in her stocking"). Newest favorite at Greenwich Village's famed Cafe Society Downtown is Sarah Vaughn, a pianist turned vocalist, who swoops up & down and around the melody in East of the Sun and Body and Soul. Some students of the subject say she is the freshest Negro talent...
...Corps alone used 30 million board feet of it and, to date, Willis has sold more plywood to lumber dealers than anybody else. Some of his plywood profits, about $200,000 last year, were plowed back into Home-Ola. But his real ace in the hole is the interest he owns in two plywood companies. While shortages are squeezing other prefabricators, Home-Ola has all the basic material it needs...