Word: holing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...explosion, witnessed by this reporter from a vantage point several cars behind the official motorcade, blew a hole in the road and scattered chunks of pavement, rocks and dirt over a wide area...
Soon after the test firing, shuttle managers expect to give the go-ahead to a plan for engineers to cut a hole through the rear wall of Discovery's cargo bay in an effort to reach and repair a nitrogen tetroxide leak...
...American imagination: the Asian and the Latin American. Both are highly communal cultures, in contrast to the literalness of American culture. Americans devour what they might otherwise fear to become. Sushi will make them lean, subtle corporate warriors. Combination Plate No. 3, smothered in mestizo gravy, will burn a hole in their hearts...
Strange's fitful par at the Country Club in Brookline, Mass., forced an 18- hole play-off for the U.S. Open title. Because it involved the British Open champion Faldo, thoughts of Brookline's previous nationals were unavoidable. In 1963 Arnold Palmer held the British title when he lost a play-off to Julius Boros. So did Englishman Ted Ray in 1913, when he bowed to the Boston amateur Francis Ouimet. This was America's historic breakthrough in golf...
...kneeling and digging and weeding seems to have an equally salutary effect on the human spirit. "He who would have beautiful roses in his garden," wrote the great rosarian Samuel Reynolds Hole in 1869, "must have beautiful roses in his heart." To wait as long as three years for trilliums to bloom requires considerable fortitude; to rise early and weed builds discipline; to construct a garden in one's mind in the dead of winter fosters purity of thought. "Sometimes what you do is for others," muses Designer Oscar de la Renta, who has transformed a Connecticut horse farm into...