Word: holing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...station for him. He soon had a second. He made the two pay $1,000 a month. But he burned for great wealth; though the Depression was at its deepest and oil was down to 10? a barrel, he began gambling in wildcat drilling ventures. He sank a dry hole, sold one of his service stations, and sank another...
...bought a derrick, got an ancient, 3,000-ft. East Texas drilling rig and a leaking secondhand boiler and boldly set out to sink a 6,000-ft. hole in Hardin County. He drafted his father as a tool pusher, his younger brother William as a laborer. It was agonizing toil. Sand ruined the rubber rings in his pumps every half hour; each time, he dismantled the mechanism and installed new ones. The "coffee pot" rig broke down endlessly. He says: "We might as well have been drilling with a high-heeled boot." It took six months to sink...
...Snead did not let the gift of one stroke fool him. He stalked down the foggy fairways like a man half expecting an ambush. It took two hours to play the first eight holes. Always a deliberate player, Hogan was taking more time than usual between shots, partly to conserve strength and partly to wear on Sam Snead's notably uncertain nervous system. On the eighth hole with the match even, both men pitched to within twelve feet of the pin to putt for birdies...
...Matter of Minutes. Water gushed into the forward torpedo room through the hole made by the Divina's prow. Before the lights went out Civilian Stevens had a chance to check the depth gauge: the Truculent rested on the bottom, 42 feet below the surface. "I knew then that an escape could be made," said Stevens. "All that worried me was what would happen...
...hook, but dug into his bag for brilliant recovery shots. One of his putts curled 60 feet over an undulating green before it dropped into the cup as though pulled by a magnet. On the long 17th he paused wearily and grinned: "You know, I've played this hole for ten years and I just realized it's uphill all the way." But he fired a brilliant 69, two under par, and moved into third place in the field...