Word: holing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Take It." In nine months of 1944-45, Walker's XX Corps traveled -some of the time at top speed-from Normandy to Austria. It was Courtney Hodges' First Army that smashed the hole in the German line, at Avranches, and it was the XX Corps and the rest of the Third Army that poured through the gap. The XX Corps' first major job was to clear the north bank of the Loire, but some of Walker's units helped to beat back the enemy counterattack at Mortain and pincer the German Seventh Army at Falaise...
...stiff upper lips have had practice in getting stiffer as they watched their national championships go to foreigners in such made-in-England sports as cricket, boxing, golf and tennis (see below). Heretofore, they have consoled themselves with the knowledge that at least their soccer players were still top hole. But even the soccer picture was turning black...
...others practiced too, and Locke's opening 69 was one stroke off the pace. On the second round, he seemed to slip a cog on the par-three fifth hole. His tee shot slid into the rough, his attempt to get out of trouble landed him in a bunker. His third shot failed to clear, and he had to take a fat six strokes on the little hole...
Despite the disastrous fifth, Locke salvaged a 72 that day, two strokes behind Welshman Dai Rees. And during the final 36 holes, played the following day, Locke kept both his temper and his strokes well in hand. His morning round of 70 brought him to a three-way tie with Rees and Argentine Roberto de Vicenzo. His final 18-hole round was right off the assembly line for a 68, and a four-round total of 279-two strokes ahead of De Vicenzo, three ahead of Rees, four better than the 58-year record for the British Open...
...Little Princesses, Governess Crawford tells the story of her long visit with Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose. She tells it cozily, as might an old servant chatting over the teacups. She also tells it a bit breathlessly, as might a woman whose secrets have been burning a hole in her tongue for 16 years. Yet she tells it on the whole discreetly, as befits one who knows that what she says is certain to get back to the people she's talking about...