Word: holing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...never had their pictures taken in colorful native costume behind the wire enclosures of Ellis Island. They simply seeped in, landing by 20s and 30s from battered planes at La Guardia field, Teterboro and Newark, suddenly appearing beside their cardboard suitcases on the city's sidewalks outside a hole-in-the-wall travel agency...
...found that their proficiency at long driving paid off. But though their tee shots generally cleared the bunkers, they got their full share of vexation on St. Andrews' wide, hard and bumpy greens. By week's end, nonetheless, two Americans had fought their way into the 36-hole final, to give the British Amateur an all-American windup for the second time in four years. They were 28-year-old Frank Stranahan of Toledo, Ohio, 1948 British Amateur winner, who had been hammering some of the longest shots of the week, and 39-year-old Dick Chapman...
...forcing Chapman to play first on approach shots. This gave sharp-eyed Stranahan a good chance to see what the wind was doing to his opponent's lofting second shots, calculate his own with the information in mind. Though Stranahan was six over par for the first 30 holes, Chapman found the going even worse. On the 30th (No. 12 hole) it was all over...
...gallery crowd had a long; walk back to the clubhouse from the twelfth hole. Not so Champion Stranahan. With something of his usual self-confidence, he had parked his car opposite No. 15 earlier in the day. He had underestimated himself by three holes...
...State, take his knowledge back to fellow farmers at home; Delfino Varela, 23, a Spanish-American who wants to study community rehabilitation at U.C.L.A. and plans to use his training in rural New Mexico; Van Sizar Allen, 24, a Mississippi Negro who will start graduate biology studies at Woods Hole, Mass, this summer; Peter Tali Coleman, 30, a Samoan who plans to take a law degree at Georgetown University, then return to Samoa as a lawyer; and Edward P. Dozier, 34, a Pueblo Indian who will try for a doctorate in anthropology at the University of California. Jock Whitney seemed...