Word: pars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Will Never Accept." In South Carolina, old (75) Jimmy Byrnes, who has held some of the highest offices in the land as a Democrat, was satisfied to say that he may not take any par in any political convention in 1956. Texas' Governor Shivers, elected to three terms as a Democrat, answered with a loaded question: "Who's Mitchell?" Louisiana's Governor Kennon was hardly contrite: "Three hundred thousand Louisiana Democrats backed up my stand on Eisenhower. I think the feeling in Louisiana is that the national Democratic Party will control the national Government when the party...
...family lived in Bavaria, where his father sold electrical goods. Albert was born in Ulm, in 1879. As a child he would make up songs, which he chanted in his room. But at school he was shy and backward, and his parents wondered whether his brain was up to par. When he was twelve, he got a copy of Euclid's Geometry, Thirty years later, Einstein recalled: "It made me realize that man is capable, through the force of thought alone, of achieving . . . stability and purity." At 13 he read Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. Still...
Cooney started off with a birdle and a par on the first two holes to go 2 up, and he held this lead at the end of the from nine with the medal score of 39. He was still 2 up going onto the sixteenth, where he took the hole to win the match...
Cooney turned in the best round of the day, shooting a three under par 69 to down Wesleyan's Herb Camp, 7 and 6. Jim Jones in the number four position and Roger Fleishmann at number seven also played exceptionally well, each winning his match by an easy 7 and 6 score...
Toby, into one of the two cars headed for Chartwell, tears stood once again in the old man's eyes. But by the time he reached his Kent home, the old Churchillian spirit was back to par. Some 30 villagers were on hand to meet him at the gate, and Churchill greeted them warmly. "Come on inside the grounds," he urged enthusiastically. "Come on, all of you, and have a look at my goldfish." The villagers swarmed in to take advantage of the invitation. "Yes," said Churchill, just before entering the house, "it's good to be home...