Word: outworks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sport." He played the Texas amateur circuit, trying to do as well as such crack golfers as Ralph Guldahl (who became U.S. Open champion in 1937 and 1938) and Nelson (U.S. Open champion in 1939). Hogan's rule, then as now: "If you can't outplay them, outwork them." At 19, when his game was good but still as unpredictable as a slippery green, Ben Hogan turned pro. Then he decided to get out of Fort Worth...
Morbid Ways & Mortgages. Toiling at the side of this unruffled paragon of sociological purpose, Beatrice-who could herself outwork and outlecture most social workers of the era-felt feebly feminine and small, "a mere dilettante." After hours of involved research into feudal economy, say, Beatrice would be ashamed to find that her head ached and she had to lie down-while Sidney indefatigably continued to probe the intricacies of mortgage and land-tenure. But he was wonderfully sympathic and never impatient...
...occasion he can be graceful and charming: there is a Navy saying that 62-year-old, egg-bald Admiral King can outdance any young ensign at night, outwork him next...