Word: palming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first round of the Palm Beach Round Robin tournament at Westchester's Wykagyl Country Club, he turned in a three-under-par 69, trailed Bobby Locke's leading 68 by four points under the man-for-man scoring system in each foursome. De Vicenzo soon got the hang of the point scoring, banged out a 68 on the second round and took the lead. He followed with another sparkling 68, and all but won the tournament before it was officially over with a 67 on his fourth round...
...Tassigny, was already organizing what later became the French First Army. Young Bernard enlisted in the Free French army in 1944, landed with the Allies in the south of France, went on with the French army into Germany, won a Medaille Militaire and a Croix de Guerre with palm. Last week, in Indo-China, Lieut. Bernard de Lattre, 23, won his second Croix de Guerre...
...dollars at a time, closed at $19.24 at week's end. James Jones's bestselling From Here to Eternity fell from $4.50 to $1.94; Waterman fountain pens were cut from $3.95 to $2.09; copper pans from $1.39 to 45?; 5-h.p. outboard motors from $203.95 to $157.00; Palm Beach suits from...
Sales soared to fantastic heights. Macy's pushed 400 Mixmasters over the counter in 45 minutes v. the usual ten daily. Gimbels sold 5,100 Palm Beach suits in three days, v. normal volume...
...Come." One Indian newspaper has called Bhave "the Saint Paul of constructive work." Wherever he goes, roads, huts or houses are decorated with festoons of palm and mango leaves. As he passes through wayside villages at dawn, groups of scantily clad, emaciated people shout: "The God who is distributing land has come!" Or, calling him the "son of Gandhi," they touch his feet, offer him flower garlands and fruit, beat drums, and blow bugles...