Word: roughness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kuala Lumpur, past villages circled with barbed wire, past check points and roadblocks set up against Commu nist terrorists. He arrived in Kuala Lumpur just as a terrorist hideout was uncovered only a two-iron shot from the ninth hole of the exclusive Selangor Golf Club (see "Ruining the Rough" in FOREIGN NEWS...
Last week a foursome at Selangor's ninth hole was surprised to see a squad of riflemen in the brush beside the fairway, muttered something about their ruining the rough. As the golfers prepared to tee off, there was a burst of rifle fire. The soldiers had come upon a long-sought hideout of the Ampang gang, a Communist military unit which once spread terror and death through Kuala Lumpur. In a brief fight three terrorists were killed. "It's shockin'," said a bald-headed British major. "I might have sliced one into the beggars' camp...
...There Be No Moaning. In Penobscot Bay, Me., Harbor Pilot George Jennings steered the freighter Indochinois into open water, couldn't return to shore because of rough seas, moodily faced a round trip to France...
Bogie admitted that he trusted only people who drank. This meant most of Hollywood. But he said once, when he was making $200,000 a picture, that "I've survived pretty well in a rough business, don't you think?" He did survive, and probably will for several years, not because he was a great actor but because he was an entertaining one. He scarcely ever was anything but Bogie in the movies, but that was something...
Knowland also had some rough sailing in his relations with the White House. He is proud of his voting record of support (88% in the 83rd Congress, 91% in the 84th) for the Eisenhower Administration, but he has made some of his biggest, blackest headlines breaking with the Administration. Perhaps the low point, in the Administration's eyes, came during the 1954 debate on the Bricker amendment, designed to dilute the President's treaty-making power. Just when Senate leadership was needed most, Knowland abandoned his majority leader's desk, walked to the rear of the Senate...