Word: parred
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nearly as good as the automakers' 14.6% and barely better than the 9.5% earned by chemical companies. Over the past seven years, according to Data Resources Inc., a firm of economic analysts, domestic oil companies have averaged slightly less than a 9.4% return on investment, about on a par with the nation's 600 largest manufacturing firms...
...16th hole at Cypress Point is considered the most dazzling in the world. It is a par three that requires a sheer carry of 233 yards over what Crosby termed "mollusk country" to a pocket handkerchief-sized green situated on a rocky palisade. As Jimmy Demaret once said, "There is no relief. The only place you can drop the ball over your shoulder is in Honolulu." Only two men have ever made a hole-in-one on the 16th at Cypress Point. One of them is Bing Crosby...
President Dwight Eisenhower, for whom Roberts provided a man-made fishing pond on the club's par-three course. It was there, near the third tee, that Roberts took his own life...
...only ray of light for the linksmen was a scintillating three-over par round of 73 by Spence Fitzgibbons, which qualifies him for the ECAC shindig on an individual basis. Fitzgibbons birdied the last hole, but Dartmouth's Joe Henley closed out with an eagle to take medalist honors with a 72. Fitzgibbons hit 14 greens in regulation, his only faux pas coming on the twelfth green, which he four-putted. anything close to their mid-season form...
...rest of the linksters never displayed anything close to their midseason form, as Alex Vik carded an 80 and Glenn Alexander and 84. Chris Ball and George Arnold both shot 85, as the former took harrowing penstrokes on the par-five fifteenth and the latter flailed to an 11 on the eleventh...