Word: holing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Venturi tapped his ball firmly. Unerringly it rolled across the green, plunked into the cup 65 ft. away. A roar went up from the gallery at the Gleneagles Country Club in suburban Chicago. The putt gave Venturi a birdie 3 for the 69th hole, and an eventual one-stroke victory in the Chicago Open. Pocketing $9,000 in prize money, Venturi added another chapter to golf's big story of 1958: the coming of age of a new group of young golfers who promise to dominate the game for years to come...
...broached his theory in New York in 1956, he mainly cited Oreopithecus' teeth as far smaller and straighter than those found in fossil monkeys. The teeth were not foward-jutting, he said, and had no simian gap. The chin was rounded instead of pointed; the jawbone had a hole for a nerve passage which is characteristic of humans. But the evidence still seemed scanty to U.S. scientists. To expand it, Hurzeler set out 28 months ago, with backing from Manhattan's Wenner-Gren Foundation, to find an entire Oreopithecus skeleton, came to be called "keeper of the abominable...
...puckered-up romances with Betsy (Judy Garland), Sheila (Esther Williams) and Cynthia (Lana Turner). Old friends crowd around, and the younger generation looks at this legendary man with proper awe. Old Buddy Beezy comes to the corporate rescue by offering a choice hunk of land near the old swimming hole for the airplane factory...
...Sample: "I always write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows. Anything you know, you can eliminate and it only strengthens your iceberg. If a writer omits something because he does not know it, then there is a hole in the story...
...tricks into a single bag. Despite the hearty, festive ring of the title, the "Banquet Years," says Author Shattuck, were essentially morbid. In his view they show the connection between modern art and a world that had lost its God and sprawled on the earth with many a gaping hole knocked through it. While the attempt to make four eccentric figures speak for an entire era is muddled, the figures themselves-four characters in search of a historian-provide enough entertaining episodes to make the reader wish he had gone to one of their blowouts...