Word: holing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bernie Baruch finished his speech in an atmosphere of warm approval and high moral earnestness, but in hole-&-corner discussions among the delegates much criticism was directed at the veto clause, on the ground that it was "unrealistic...
Next day the three survivors-Nelson, Vic Ghezzi and Lloyd Mangrum-played a tight-lipped extra 18-holes, and ended up still tied. They teed off again and it was still touch & go. On the 103rd hole, willowy, wiry ex-G.I. Lloyd Mangrum, 31, of Los Angeles, who had been wounded in the Battle of the Bulge, got hot, began shooting birdies. Not even a thunderstorm just before the finish could cool him. The 108-hole totals: Mangrum 428; Nelson and Ghezzi...
...Life Saver. Ingersoll plugged the Washington hole with a makeshift staff. To the 165,000 faithful, he had already prepared an appeal which he distributed this week. Said he: PM needs 100,000 new readers. In a PM-size, twelve page "Prospectus," Ingersoll blew the cap on PM's crisis-ridden history, in which he emerged as a combination Job and St. George of modern journalism...
...while she existed in an eight-room cottage near by. There was a person in charge at the Kronberg castle-a self-assured female captain named Nash. She would have to be asked about the royal heirlooms. Unfortunately they had been buried in a lead-lined box in a hole in the subcellar...
...April Princess Sophie went to Kronberg. But Captain Nash had returned to the U.S. and none of her successors knew anything about the priceless jewels. In the subcellar was nothing but a litter of wine bottles, and an empty hole. Princess Sophie then complained to the U.S. Army. Where were the jewels...