Word: holing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...crime. The three kidnapers had driven their captives for some eleven hours, arriving at 3:30 a.m. at the quarry. Throughout the trip the men rarely spoke. At the quarry, the men backed their vans up to a 3-ft.-wide opening in the ground. Covering both the hole and the back of the vans with a tarp, they ordered the children to descend into the entryway, asking each of them his name and age and taking a trinket or a piece of clothing from each as they passed into the darkened entrance. The narrow tunnel led down...
...first photo shows the futile error of trying to plug a leak on the dry side of a dam bank. Any farmer familiar with dams and irrigation knows you must plug the hole at the source: on the water side...
...mediating talents of a good film editor working up a show of highlights, which would have lasted about two minutes. To be sure, PBS was operating under restraints. It had been forbidden to show the guests gulping and gnawing, leaving it with more than an hour-long hole right in the middle of the program, which it chose to fill with innocuous studies of the British monarchy's past and future. At times, the severe White House restrictions on camera placement left viewers with the suspicion that the show had been staged by Andy Warhol. Finally, PBS could obviously...
Those words proved especially relevant to the 1976 British Open from its opening round last Wednesday up to the 72nd and final hole, as unheralded 19 year old Spaniard Severiano Ballesteros upstaged the international field to finish tied for second only after succumbing to a withering closing round of 66 fired by America's Johnny Miller...
...Wednesday October 17, 1860, a field of eight British professionals teed off at the 12-hole Prestwick course in the quiet fishing town of that name on the Ayshire coast. After three rounds of play, Willie Park was ushered in as the first winner of the British Open with a score of 174, exactly 58 strokes ahead of the last place finisher...