Word: holing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Just sitting in my hole. I guess I musta been shaking and crying. After I came down I tried to go back up. I tried and I just couldn...
...stocky man with blond hair walked slowly around the deserted dirt race track, assessing its surface with an expert eye, calculating the bank of its curves. He made a mental note of every hole and soft spot, the oil slicks, the mud clods that could jar a hot rubber tire whirling along at more than 100 m.p.h. Melvin E. ("Tony") Bettenhausen, the year's hottest U.S. driver, and possibly the best since Ralph de Palma, 35 years ago, was planning how to drive a race...
...late, goes to bed usually long after midnight. A favorite McCarthy recreation is poker, but many find playing with him too nerve-racking, and somewhat like opposing him in politics. In seven-card stud, McCarthy will raise, raise again and then again without even bothering to look at his hole cards. Said one opponent: "You get to the point where you don't care what McCarthy's got in the hole-all you know is that it's too costly to stay in the game...
Last spring's tennis captain Bob Bramhall starred at right half, and lacrosse midfielder Laurie Otis showed real prowess at right full. Footballer Bill Fitzpatrick held down his center position well. But the ace in the hole was varsity hockey player Morgie Hatch at left half...
...sent the writer back to rewrite it by 8 o'clock. He summoned generals and admirals to his office on Sunday afternoon to advise him, then was unable to make up his mind on the problem at hand. One associate noticed that Forrestal had worn a "hole in his head" by indulging his nervous habit of scratching his scalp. On March 1, Harry Truman sent for Forrestal and asked for his immediate resignation. This, say his friends, was a "shattering experience," the final proof to his exhausted mind that he was a failure. He submitted his resignation gracefully...