Word: ironical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...well agree. Thatcher, however, thinks her sex may be an advantage. "There's an air of excitement," she says, "about the possibility that we're going to have a change of this kind." Later, in a mood of introspection, the woman whom the Russians have dubbed "the Iron Lady" summed herself up by saying: "I am what I am-it's the whole personality. I happen to be a woman. I have no experience of the alternative...
Instead Carter will have to deal with Mrs. Thatcher--dubbed the 'Iron Maiden' by the Soviets--who has been openly skeptical of the value of detente and a SALT II agreement. And though the Conservative commitment to increased NATO defense spending may please the Pentagon, a Tory Britain acting more Europe-conscious and less, as the French allege, "as a stalking-horse for American interests," may well be rated a minus by the State Department...
...even par through the ninth except that he white-knuckled three putts of less than a yard on the sixth, seventh, and eighth holes. He made his fourth straight bogey on number nine, a demanding 410-yd. par four with an elevated green flanked by traps, where his three-iron to the green caught the sand...
Raffi also found misfortune on the same par three 17th that plagued Dales and Lowenstein. He hit a fat three-iron from the tee that kerplopped into a bunker, and then he bladed his sand wedge shot over the green. After taking a double bogey there, however, he came back to birdie the par five 18th...
Alexander was the victim of a freakish incident on the ninth hole. His seven-iron to the green flew long, landed on a cart path, and then bounced over the clubhouse roof in one gigantic hop. He located the ball in the course parking lot next to the Dartmouth team mobile trailer. After taking a drop. Alexander wanted to play a pitch-and-run to the green but his approach was blocked by the UMass team van. He therefore executed a perfect comme-il-faut wedge shot that landed on the putting surface. Alas, he missed...