Word: par
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...learned that Gene Sarazen, another veteran of British tournaments, was in the groove too. Nonchalantly plodding along on his piano legs, still wearing outmoded plus fours and using a 40-year-old putter, Oldster Sarazen, who was four strokes behind Little at the halfway mark, needed a two-under-par 34 on the last nine to catch Little...
...tanks (which Germany got by her seizure of the Skoda munitions works in Czechoslovakia) are their vulnerable spot. The quality of German aircraft, the ability of German pilots (many of whom are sent up with minimum flight instruments, obliged to follow-their-leader) were not believed up to Allied par. Allies saw that inferior, half-trained troops were mixed in with the elite. For their own civilian Army ranks they now had a leavening of veterans returning from Dunkirk (see p. 24), whose three weeks in Flanders were as instructive as three years of World...
...Totalitarian." News cables from London soon gave the world an impression that Britain was on a totalitarian par with the Nazis. The Emergency Powers Defense Act simply authorized the Government, which remains in power only at the will of Parliament, to take almost any desired action by Orders in Council, in which all three of the great British parties are now represented. There was no totalitarian suppression of all parties but one, no totalitarian exaltation of one man as Dictator, no wiping out of the established British press or creation of rubber-stamp Government organs, and no abolition...
Hephizibah McWeebles, Wellesley starlet, warned Ace Cordingley, Harvard leader, that "There are plenty of water hazards out here, and my ball has been in them so often that it knows how to swim now." She added that "customary Crimson par-jury and hand mashie work would be closely watched...
With Fred Waring's noisiest musicians tooting & trumpeting at tee & green, with 5,000 spectators chattering, cheering and rattling the putter, Demaret & Ruth defeated Sarazen & Tunney, 2 & 1. Demaret shot a par 72, Sarazen 73, Ruth and Tunney 82 each. The gallery voted it more fun than a circus...