Word: legend
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...balance. With his broad shoulders and strong legs, the result is blinding club speed. According to golf coach David Leadbetter, the average pro golf swing moves the club head at perhaps 110 m.p.h. Daly's driver may be traveling 140 m.p.h. when it hits the ball. Says golf legend Sam Snead, who also hit thunderous drives in his prime: "I never saw a man who could take a club that far back and drive that well for that long. But if that swing ever comes unglued, they will never find the ball...
...climax of the festivities took place this month in the Rutli meadow overlooking Lake Lucerne. The field can be reached only on foot, so the celebrators clambered up the bank of the lake to gather at the historic site where, according to legend, rebellious farmers from the founding cantons swore the first oath of Swiss allegiance in 1291. The backdrop was dramatic but fittingly modest: no parades down grand boulevards, just a nostalgic tribute by a modern industrial nation to its simpler, farming roots. When night fell, ) bonfires and fireworks...
...truly a living legend," says Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe. "It is hard to think of another lawyer in the 20th century who has played a more important role." In 1967, when Lyndon Johnson chose him as the first black Supreme Court Justice, Marshall was a man resolved to continue the revolution he had helped to set in motion. But his 24 years on the court were increasingly frustrating. The last Justice chosen by a Democratic President, he joined the liberal court of Chief Justice Earl Warren in its waning years. Over the next two decades, as a succession...
...Gordo" (the Fat Man), as Santacruz is known, is a legend in the New York Latin underworld. The word making the rounds is that every so often he materializes in the middle of a drug deal and exchanges a few pleasantries with the customer. Then, as suddenly as he appeared, he is gone again...
Leto Lopez looked no different from his Westchester County neighbors: he wore conservative suits, lived in a $775,000 colonial house and drove an Acura Legend. He opened a public fax service to mix his drug messages with thousands of others dispatched by honest customers. He set up an import business and actually imported South American furniture so that the U.S. Customs Service would think he was a legitimate businessman...