Word: pars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thou" attitude adopted by some Americans towards the English in regard to Munich, and states that England had no more moral or legal obligation to defend Czechoslovakia than had the U.S. Mr. Churchill implies that the respective positions of Great Britain and the U.S. towards Czechoslovakia were on a par...
High-grade morons (with a mental age of between ten and twelve years), said the institute's Research Director James Stannard Baker, make the best automobile drivers. If the moron's eyesight is a little below par, all the better-keeps his mind on the job. "The operation of a motor car," Baker explained, "is too dumb a job to command the attention of those who are particularly bright." And people with sharp eyes are apt to be distracted by shop windows or pretty faces...
...also failed as a P.G.A. finalist (against Jim Ferrier in 1947). Harbert's booming drives consistently outdistanced Turnesa in the morning 18 holes. At the lunchtime break, Turnesa, after getting in and out of five traps, was three holes down to Harbert's 2-under-par 70. Turnesa, as spunky as he is chunky (5 ft. 6 in., 155 Ibs.), refused to give up. Not until the 32nd hole of the scheduled 36-hole final did Jim Turnesa even the match-and he had to sink a 15-foot birdie putt to do it. Said one knowing spectator...
...hooked drive on the 438-yard 36th nestled plunk behind a left-fairway fir tree, stymied from the green. Harbert could only pitch out into the fairway. Turnesa drove straight and true, pitched dead to the green, holed out in two putts and won the match with a par, one up. Said Turnesa, speaking for the rest of the family: "We've been trying to get our name on that trophy for over 30 years. Now we've finally made...
After two rounds of the U.S. Open golf championship last week, the sportwriters, and most of the competitors, conceded the title to Ben Hogan, who was gunning grimly for his third straight after his miraculous comeback. Hogan had pounded out a pair of one-under-par 69s, back to back. Going into the final two rounds Hogan seemed to have it cinched...