Word: oaks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hours after the 210 top amateur golfers s"et out to decide who would be U.S. champion for 1949, the tournament came to a water-logged stop. Rain beat down on Rochester's Oak Hill course. When play was resumed, it was too dark for Ted Bishop, the 1946 champion, to complete his first-round match-and he bowed early next morning to a Denver schoolteacher named John Kraft...
Philip Murray waited for silence. The C.I.O. Steelworkers' president was concluding his final plea for a 30? -an-hour package of wage increases, pensions and social insurance. Across the oak-paneled hearing room sat Enders Voorhees, chairman of U.S. Steel Corp.'s finance committee, who had presented the core of Big Steel's arguments. Voorhees, snapped Murray, did not understand the working man: "He's lived a ... juicy life . . . [this] fat, sassy and very opulent man." And if Voorhees did not believe in pensions, asked Murray, "why does he not mention his own $70,323 pension...
...whoo-whoo of a train whistle wailed through the rushing chug-a-chug of a locomotive. Then a cowboy guitar picked up the forlorn rhythm of "I'm a-goin' where the climate fits my clothes" to introduce the treacly resonance of a radio announcer. In the oak-paneled commons room of Chicago Theological Seminary last week, 39 Protestant ministers and religious workers listened intently to the transcribed radio show that followed, How Christmas Came to Maggie Martin...
...Other things being equal, experts know that the more desirable bourbon is aged in a new, charred, white oak barrel, as opposed to used cooperage...
...request he was buried in once-damned Swedish soil, under a simple oak cross bearing the inscription Ave Crux Spes Unica (Hail, Cross! The Only Hope...