Word: holing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...miss was fired by Economic Stabilizer Eric Johnston. He approved a 6?-an-hour escalator clause raise for 1,000,000 non-operating union railroad workers (telegraphers, clerks, etc.), thus blowing a hole through the wage ceiling he had put on in February. Johnston argued that 1) there were special reasons for doing so in this case, and 2) other unions wouldn't be able to sneak through the same hole. But the same special reasons seemed to apply to 1,000,000 other railworkers. Other unions whose wages are tied to cost-of-living escalator clauses were thinking...
Below these layers they went through a large rockfall to hit glacial gravel of the Pleistocene. After the discovery of a rare hand ax, tension in the deep hole grew as thick as the close air below the cave floor. Then, in the sputtering light of a Coleman lamp, the Iranian workmen disinterred the skeletons of the three prehistoric men who had met sudden death there some 75,000 years...
Ponkapoag has 27 holes, nine for beginners and 18 in the championship class. Formerly rated as a par 72, the eighteen hole course was changed to a par 73 two years ago after topflight professional and amateur golfers had failed to either equal or break the existing...
...these wishing to stick closer to Cambridge, several mediocre courses are within fifteen minutes of the Square. Nearest is Fresh Pond Golf Course, a nine hole Cambridge Municipal affair. Short, in poor condition, and fairly uninteresting, Fresh Pond's only advantage is the fact that it can be reached by driving 2 1/2 miles along Concord Avenue...
...Square and 1 mile off Route 9, Albemarle Golf Course, five miles from Harvard along Route 16, Minute Man golf Course, six miles away along route 2 in Lexington, and Mt. Hood Memorial Park Golf Course, eight miles to the North along the Newburyport Turnpike. All these are 18 hole layouts...