Word: pars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first hour and had to be replenished. Lining up in block-long queues, hungry East Berliners bought 25,000 kilos of potatoes, 12,000 liters of milk at a fraction of the prices charged in their Communist paradise (to encourage customers, Kressmann accepted East zone marks at par, instead of at the usual price of five East marks to one West mark). Anyone who could produce an East German identity card had his choice of five oranges (at 1? a piece) or two pounds of cherries (3? a pound). Said an old woman counting her oranges: "Unbelievable! I haven...
...About par for the course, since Esperanto has only 16 rules of grammar, with no exceptions and no irregularities. Sample rules: nouns end in "o," adjectives in "a," adverbs in "e," direct objects in "n," plurals...
...Rain & Hail. On the first day's round Hogan did no course-burning. He shot a 73, one over unofficial par on the long (7,200-yd.) course; he was three strokes off the pace. But his second-round 71, some of it played in rain and hail, left him tied for third, just two strokes off the pace. A reporter suggested that he was in a nice position for the run for the finish, the 36 grueling holes of the last day. "Yeah," agreed Ben, "it's not a bad position...
...Toil & Trouble. That afternoon, his face pale with cold and exhaustion, 40-year-old Ben Hogan teed off for the last round. The critical play came on the par-four fifth hole, where his second shot hit the green, spun, and dribbled into the deep grass edging a bunker, some 40 ft. from the pin. In trouble, Ben studied the difficult shot from all angles for fully five minutes. Then he hauled out a No. 9 iron, lined up the shot once more, and swung. The ball bounced, rolled boldly toward the hole, struck the back lip, bounced a foot...
...only create almost the identical amount banks may need to finance new-money bond issues; the prospect also stiffened the prices of both Government and corporate bonds. The Government's 2½% bonds rose a full point, and Humphrey's new 3¼% bonds rose to par for the first time in six weeks...