Word: holing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both bodies were put in a shallow hole. Men arrived with five cans of gasoline which was poured on the bodies...
...year-old Scotsman, depressed, put a bullet through his brain with a .45 service revolver, leaving a 1¼-inch hole in his forehead. What happened thereafter was so astonishing that Edinburgh's Principal Police Surgeon Douglas J. A. Kerr reported it in last week's Lancet...
...suicide took place in the evening, in a summer house across the street from the suicide's rooming house. In the summer house police found about 20 cigaret stubs, the revolver, a bullet hole in the roof, and some particles of brain matter. "He must have remained unconscious for some hours. Snow began to fall at 6 next morning. . . . About 7 a.m., after it had stopped snowing, he had staggered from the summer house. . . . His footsteps could be traced in a rough circle round the gardens from tree to tree and back to the summer house, a distance...
...winter golf circuit, ginger-haired Byron Nelson copped eight tournaments with a sensational 18-hole average of 68.4 strokes. Sparse-haired Samuel ("Sambo") Snead was a dangerous second, with six wins and a 69.2 average. Such figures promised little less than perfection for last week's two-day battle royal between the two best golfers in the land. Perhaps it was because they played for charity instead of pay, but the match proved nothing more startling than that Snead and Nelson were equally human where strokes count most-on the greens...
...sure don't be de dype to seddle down in a hole like dis," said the Norwegian skipper gloomily as he watched pert, young Santa Fe Schoolteacher Helen Wheaton get ready to clamber over the side of his dinky schooner in Atka Harbor. As she said goodbye to the skipper and boarded the bobbing dory in which her bridegroom waited with open arms, Helen was thinking much the same thing...