Word: holing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME Aug. 27 says, "After testing 220 white and Negro babies on such items as crawling, babbling, standing and grabbing, Psychologist A. R. Gilliland of Northwestern University poked another hole into an old superstition. Mean I.Q. of the white babies: 103; of the Negroes...
...talks with surviving enemy foot soldiers and officers. In one interview, he found that the Japanese ex-officer, with whom he was talking, had directed mortar fire on the town of Garapan, Saipan, where Feldkamp, a World War II Marine Corps combat correspondent had been crouching in a hole ducking the fragments...
...Club Captain: Francis Ouimet, 57, of Brookline, Mass., onetime captain of America's Walker Cup team, and first amateur to win the U.S. Open (1913). Ouimet will begin his one-year term next week after following through the ritual of "playing into office," i.e., going the 18-hole Old Course and tipping his caddy a pound note...
...around. Sometimes they get in front of you just as you're about to hit the ball. You yell, 'Fore! Fore!' Then you think, 'The hell with it,' and you hit the ball . . . When you get around to the 1 3th or 1 4th hole you hear the loudspeakers blaring out the performances of the favorites. And when there are no performances to announce, music tinkles out. I couldn't concentrate...
...with a long tale of woe. The man was Sidney Gould, head of a small Brooklyn company which nickel-plates towel racks and auto bumpers. His woe was the black market in nickel. "To get any nickel," he told the Senators, "you practically have to open a peep hole and say 'Benny sent me.' Of course, if you want to pay the price and meet the terms-meaning cash so the OPS can't keep track-then there's no shortage...