Word: ironed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...enemy from the air as bombs. The word derives from the Greek bombos, meaning a deep hollow sound. In the earliest known use of the word in English, an anonymous translator of a Spanish treatise described in 1588 how the Chinese used "many bomes of fire, full of olde iron and arrowes made with powder & fire worke, with the which they do much harme and destroy their enimies...
Fitzgibbons played the type of golf Walter Hagen once termed "unconscious." He started his round on the second nine and promptly birdied the par five 14th. He overshot the green on his second shot, a two-iron he caught flush, but chipped back and canned the putt. Like Dales, he also found a watery grave on the 16th but escaped with a bogey...
...only costly mistake came on the 18th, which, in this case, was the ninth hole of his round. Fitzgibbons plunked his five-iron into the woods and for lack of a steam shovel was forced to declare an unplayable lie and take a double bogey...
Fitzgibbons resumed his torrid pace coming in. On the second he missed a five-foot birdie putt. On number four he floated an eight-iron within a yard of the flagstick for a cast iron birdie. His third birdie of the day came on the seventh where he hit a wedge that touched down like a butterfly with sore legs six inches from...
Dales still had a closing salvo in store. He birdied the par three 17th when he bladed a 30-foot putt dead center in the cup. On the final hole he drilled a two-iron that bored into the spongy green like a bullet going through a cream puff, but his birdie putt hung...