Word: putting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...high-heeled man from Texas paced the paddock at Florida's Tropical Park one day last winter. "I'll bet twenty-five on the quarter-horse," barked the Texan. A passerby peeled two tens and a five from his roll and offered to take the bet. "Put that chicken feed back in your pocket," roared the Texan. "I mean twenty-five thousand...
...that lobs skyward for 30 feet or so, then plummets to earth so dead on the base line that opponents frequently let it drop thinking it will be outside-and it almost never is. The score in the third set crept to 15-all. After winning one point, Freeman put what remaining strength he had left into a final smash. Ooi Teik Hock went down...
...know why") on the edge of California's Death Valley. Last week, Stan Jones was cruising around Hollywood in a 1949 car, with reporters and photographers on his tail. Overnight, a little tune that he had cooked up around the campfire, called Riders in the Sky, had put him in the spotlight...
...museum restorer put it together again as best he could, but he had to leave out many of the blue chips-he just couldn't find a way to fit them in. Recently 30 of the surplus chips, carefully saved all these years, turned up in a private collection. They gave the museum's present restorer, 51-year-old Jack Axtell, a good reason for restoring the Portland Vase all over again. Considering that it is valued at over $100,000, it was worth another...
Axtell soaked the urn in water and alcohol for three weeks, until the old glue yielded. Then he put it together again, working in about a dozen of the 30 chips that the first man had left out. The added bits did not help much, but Axtell's colorless glue was a great improvement. Before, the breaks in the glass had been apparent several feet away; last week, with the urn again on exhibition in the British Museum, it took a sharp eye to detect the breaks...