Word: holing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mock birthday parties for the bill were being celebrated by members of both the House and the Senate. On the House side, Minority Leader John Rhodes of Arizona and fellow Republicans carved up a large doughnut that was meant to symbolize a birthday cake for a bill with a hole in it. A mixed group of Democratic and Republican Senators had their own party, complete with a cake adorned by a turkey. Said South Dakota's James Abourezk: "We are meeting in thanksgiving that the various turkeys trotted out by the natural gas conferees have not yet been stuffed...
Stenhouse followed by executing a perfect hit-and-run, punching a single through the vacated shortstop hole...
...again as he soared to what is a nice temperature in the Iraqi desert--85. Sophomore Jim Dales chattered his way through a four-putt green and an 82. Senior Dave Paxton played a near impeccable front nine, then rose to the occasion at the long par-4 tenth hole and took, in the ever-inventive golf vernacular, a "snow man." "You know what a snow man looks like," said Paxton, "One ball of snow on top of another--an 8!" Paxton shot 81. George Arnold managed an 85. Alex Vik and Glenn Alexander eschewed the carnage in favor...
...pristine course opened with Hunnewell hitting the first shot off the tee. Miraculously, he sunk a hole-in-one, but the assembled spectators, who had never witnessed golf, remained totally impassive, merely assuming that this was the goal of the game...
Thanks to Curtis and Florence Boit, a six-hole course was duly laid out in March of 1893, and ever since The Country Club has been one of the nation's premiere tests of golf. These first holes were "placed on a lawn in front of the clubhouse, in dangerous proximity, as after experience showed, to the front piazza...