Word: holing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...England they shall be pounded into submission . . . Our lawn tennis players might decide now to win three sets instead of one at Wimbledon . . . Our Walker Cup golfers could will themselves into believing that even a 15-yard putt will go in if the ball is correctly directed to the hole...
...strode to the first tee, Babe obligingly clowned for photographers and the gallery, but she was in no joking mood. For one of the few times in her competitive golf life (14 years) the Babe found herself in the hole: one stroke behind stocky, redheaded Patty Berg, 33, Ladies' P.G.A. president...
...final round of the 144-hole Weathervane cross-country golf tournament and a $5,000 first prize was at stake.* Despite her wisecracks to the gallery ("The only time the gallery will ever bother me is when it doesn't show up"), Babe was grimly intent on winning, "not for the money-I just like to play a good game...
Keep Out of Trouble. Last week Patty Berg gave Babe something to shoot at. After slamming home an eagle 2 on the 372-yd. tenth hole, Patty finished with a sparkling 73, 2 over men's par. Babe heard about Patty's round on the 17th tee, knew that even to tie she needed a birdie and a par. She got them. She rammed in a birdie 4 on the 540-yd. 17th, got her par 4 on the 445-yd. 18th by reaching the green with a drive and a dazzling No. 2 iron shot. Final score...
...tube is a small "source chamber" containing nitrogen gas. When this is heated by a furnace, the nitrogen molecules pick up kinetic energy and zigzag through the chamber at great speed. Those that happen to be shooting in the right direction pass through a hole one-fiftieth of an inch in diameter that leads to the evacuated tube...