Word: holing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Louisville final last week, Jim Turnesa met Melvin ("Chick") Harbert, 37, a slam-bang hitter who had also failed as a P.G.A. finalist (against Jim Ferrier in 1947). Harbert's booming drives consistently outdistanced Turnesa in the morning 18 holes. At the lunchtime break, Turnesa, after getting in and out of five traps, was three holes down to Harbert's 2-under-par 70. Turnesa, as spunky as he is chunky (5 ft. 6 in., 155 Ibs.), refused to give up. Not until the 32nd hole of the scheduled 36-hole final did Jim Turnesa even the match...
Great Altar. Behind the wall was a mass of rubble cemented tightly together with lime carried down by percolating rainwater. Behind this was a corridor, at the end of which was a massive stone slab. The workmen pried at its edges, and poked a hole into empty space. Ruz pointed a flashlight into the ancient blackness and saw glistening white stalactites hanging in curtains from the roof. Beyond was a great stone altar covered with the tortured shapes of Mayan hieroglyphs...
...Scotland's Moira Paterson, the British Women's Amateur golf championship, over England's Frances Stephens, one up on the 38th hole after being five down on the 23rd; at Troon, Scotland. Miss Paterson is the first Scotswoman to win the British title since...
...without clothing or utensils. Knowles came back with the skin of a bear he claimed to have trapped in a pit, wore it through Boston's streets before one of the biggest crowds in the city's history. When jeering Hearstmen claimed to have found a bullet hole in the bearskin, Knowles went back to Maine, and in front of witnesses clubbed to death a New Brunswick bear which had been brought down in a cage and released...
...This [the hole] happened when I started to write what I thought of the officers of this paper who would not only leave a man without any record of what was across [he was set in type], without a proofreader, but also ask him to write the editorial--which he didn't May God and the graduates who read this sheet be merciful in their judgment." As an undergraduate editor I say Vale...