Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Billy Joe played his trick shot, lacing a No. 6 iron through a narrow opening, up and over a yawning trap, and landing the ball about 45 feet from the pin. After his approach putt, Billy Joe was still five feet away, while Welsh had a mere two-footer. Patton confidently plunked his five-footer into the cup. Welsh, finally unnerved by Billy Joe's breezy confidence, missed the two-footer and lost the match...
...close, there was plenty of audience praise, though some thought the girls were a little overdrilled and too heavily coy. Next morning, the critics were unanimous. "Up goes the Iron Curtain on enchanting dancers," said the News Chronicle. Wrote the Times: "An example of Russian theatrical art [which], when it comes West, always surprises us anew, delights us with its Tightness as well as its distinction, and puts a spell...
...portraits opposite and the farm and genre scenes on the following page well illustrate Walker's text. In them a plain-Jane, a complacent family, a fruitful farm and a brutal sport are presented head on, neatly and with no nonsense. Yet the girl's iron coiffure, the bilateral symmetry of the family's bird cages, the minted gold sky over the farmstead and the shoe-button eyes of the battle royal's 129 spectators are vivid touches for all their technical clumsiness...
...single ounce of Nu-Soft added to the final rinse water, says Harshaw, will eliminate static electricity from wool and nylon, leave all clothes soft, fluffy and easy to iron. Price...
...Crimean War began, all three peers were on the verge of retirement, but each postponed the day to travel to the Crimea. Lord Raglan was determined to be as much like the great Duke of Wellington as possible. Lord Lucan was determined to rule Lord Cardigan with an iron hand. Lord Cardigan was determined to take no orders from Lord Lucan. The mess, muddle and wintry cold of the Crimea were just what Lord Lucan relished: he lived "hard" and made sure that his unfortunate men did the same. Lord Car digan, however, lived on the Black...