Word: holing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thesis notes were burning a hole in Miles' portfolio. After a year at the London School of economics, during which he acquired a pint-sized car he calls "the little Nipper." Miles came to roost at the Littauer School. In the last two years at the University, his thesis has grown, he says, to volumes of research and two pages of final product...
...trumpet, bass, drums and, of course, Mulligan's hoarse-voiced baritone sax. In comparison with the frantic extremes of bop, his jazz is rich and even orderly, is marked by an almost Bach-like counterpoint. As in Bach, each Mulligan man is busily looking for a pause, a hole in the music which he can fill with an answering phrase. Sometimes the polyphony is reminiscent of tailgate blues, sometimes it comes tumbling with bell-over-mouthpiece impromptu...
...Angeles, Actor Cameron Mitchell, having a miserable day on the golf course, disconsolately whacked the ball with his putter from the 15th tee. The ball hit at mid-fairway, took a couple of bounces, skittered on to the green, and trickled into the cup for a hole in one and the longest putt on record: 576 feet...
...headed incongruously across the floor toward the crowded waiting room. Then the concrete flooring gave way and it crashed through into a baggage room below amid clouds of steam and dust and a heart-stopping tumult of sound. The first coach hung at an angle over the gaping hole. The second coach also entered the concourse. Other front coaches were derailed, but passengers in the rear coaches did not realize there had been an accident. They thought that the engineer had made a rather jolting stop...
...first-aid station, close to the front line. Through the crump of enemy mortars, he heard a G.I. shout, "Medic . . . medic," and raced to the shallow trench where his first combat casualty lay. The wounded man's helmet had fallen over his face; blood oozed from a jagged hole in his breast. Irwin concentrated on all the things he had been taught to do. "Take it easy, Mac," said Corpsman Rietz as he ripped open the blood-soaked flak jacket and pressed dressings on the wound. "You're going to be all right...