Word: holing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Orleans' sprawling City Park was once a sugar plantation. Now it combines the languorous beauty of the Cajun country with a football stadium, two 18-hole golf courses, an amusement area, picnic grounds, a swimming pool, baseball diamonds, dozens of tennis courts and an art museum...
...Captive. Roger decided on action. He called his two beagles, Midge and Queen, and his black & tan mongrel, Nipper, and headed for a hollow beech tree in the woods a mile and a half away. Stationing his dogs near a hole at the base of the trunk in case he scared out any raccoons, he went up the 40-ft. bole like a monkey...
...clothes off and tried to wiggle, feet first, out the hole at the bottom of the tree. He got stuck again, legs out, body in. Jostling each other in delight, his dogs began licking his bare toes. He ordered them to go for help. They licked harder. He yelled. Nothing happened. Finally, darkness fell. He told himself: "Roger, you've made your last mistake...
...have a look at Spain's civil war and write some pieces about it. A radical in politics and an antiFascist, he decided to fight instead, and enlisted in a militia outfit. Seven months later, badly used up and sporting the scars of a near-fatal bullet hole through his neck, he went back to England and wrote a book about his experience. It was not a popular book because it was antiCommunist, and the fashion then was to cheer the Communist-controlled "Popular Front" that was running Spain. In the U.S., the book wasn't published...
Golfer Bill Timpson, only Crimson player to qualify for one of the 16 match-play berths in the Eastern Intercollegiate Golf Championships at Annapolis over the weekend, lost in the first round to Yale captain Line Roden, 1 down on the 19th hole...