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Word: holing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...election record of never breaking 90 during the entire weekend. (Before he became President, he often made the low 80s.) His driving was as sound as ever, but his putting was way off form. He had his toughest time on the Club's twelfth, the "make or break hole." It is a nasty, short hole (155 yards) with an elevated tee and a stream running between tee and green. Ike plunked his first shot into the water. Undismayed, he teed-up another, laid it twelve feet from the pin, was down in two putts for a five...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Long Weekend | 3/9/1953 | See Source »

...good living as an economic adviser to private industry. Ill health haunted him. Last week, tired and depressed at 58, he called his wife at a Red Cross meeting and asked her to come home at once. She found him dead on the floor of the bathroom, a bullet hole through the roof of his mouth, the pistol still clutched in his hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICS: Insurgent's Way | 3/9/1953 | See Source »

...another $2,500,000 in the process. Last week the first trains finally ran through the Locust Street tunnel (providing a high-speed connection between the business district and Camden, N.J. via the Delaware River Bridge). But nobody had any such hopes for another ancient and expensive Philadelphia subway hole in the ground, the Arch Street tunnel, used only as a storage place for rivets and old rails since its excavation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PENNSYLVANIA: Hole in the Ground | 2/23/1953 | See Source »

...gale whipped the trees along Tel Aviv's Rothschild Boulevard and tore at the policeman on guard before the Soviet legation to Israel. While he patrolled the front, someone neatly clipped a hole in a wire fence at the rear, crept through and placed a bomb-six pounds of high explosives in a thin metal container-against a wall of the somber grey stone legation. The bomb went off with a crash that shook Tel Aviv and sent diplomatic shock tremors across the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Diplomatic Explosion | 2/23/1953 | See Source »

...plot thickens, Randy sickens. When his fever hits 104°, the runaways hole up with a heroin-peddling doctor who shoots Randy full of antibiotics. Randy recovers, but, at 39, he is sure that all of life's dice are loaded; he has little faith in second chances, especially sexy ones. He advises Rowdy to go home to her insurance salesman, which indeed she does, but not before she sees Randy cut down in a hail of bullets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Soup Opera | 2/16/1953 | See Source »

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