Word: holing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jojo" Hoffmann, the Francophile ex-Premier, cornered a solid 21.8% (and 13 seats in Parliament) for his Christian People's Party. Hoffmann's supporters, who favor continued economic collaboration between the Saar and France, cannily reminded middle-class Saarlanders that West German taxes might make a bigger hole in their pocketbooks than their own French-style system...
...hole in the dike. The doctor enlarges it, brings the churchman at last to confess crimes he has never committed in order to punish himself for the sins he is truly guilty of. Too late the exhausted cardinal realizes his mistake: a man may not judge himself any more than he may judge another. Defaced, the living monument is set free, "to walk the world like Cain." He goes to meet his fate, far worse than death to his human pride, with a simple courage that leaves the interrogator shaken. "It means," the doctor says wonderingly, "you've defeated...
...Royal College of Surgeons in London in 1927, the college's president, Sir Berkeley Moynihan, took aside France's Professor René Leriche to show him a unique and little-known specimen. It was a sealed glass tube containing a piece of small intestine with a hole in it. Surgeon Leriche made an on-the-spot diagnosis: perforation caused by a tropical disease. Confided Moynihan proudly: "It is Napoleon's intestine...
...Commando unit, also served in North Africa and Italy, reached the rank of major. He covered the Korean war for the Daily Telegraph, managed to rub most of his fellow correspondents the wrong way until the day he returned from a patrol action with a half-dollar-sized shrapnel hole in his shin and coolly dictated a dispatch...
Perhaps it's too much to ask also for tipsy liquids at the Clubhouse, which will accompany an eighteen hole University golf course, something we should have wished for ages age. After all, St. Mark's, as we might suspect, and Wellesley, as we might not suspect, have their share of greens and sandtraps...