Word: round
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seventy-one, he played in the 1973 British Open at Troon, fifty years after his first appearance there. The dapper, knickerbockered Sarazen aced the 126-yd. hole known as the Postage Stamp because of its small green. He finished with a 79 and shot an 81 for his second round, sinking an explosion shot for a 2 on the Postage Stamp...
After the round, Sarazen happened to overhear a conversation between two elderly members lounging in the clubhouse. "If I'm not mistaken" one of them said, "Sarazen had a total of 160 for his two rounds in 1923--a 75 and an 85. This year once gain he had a total of 160--a 79 and an 81. He hasn't improved at all over the years...
...French composer was treated with kid gloves in the concert's opening work, his Roman Carnival Overture. Terry Maskin, who was outstanding in the 1976 Harvard Summer School Orchestra, showed similar mastery in the tricky English horn solo, and the trombones cut through the string filigree passages with round sonority. Even the upper string intonation was not excessively distressing, and the forte passages seemed to herald a new, aggressive, full-bodied ensemble sound...
...struck Oxford classmate, on his cruising boat, "and watched the death-throes of the suffocating sands under the relentless onset of the sea ... The Dulcibella, hitherto contemptuously inert, began to wake and tremble under the buffetings she received ... Soon her warp tightened and her nose swung slowly round; only her stern bumped now, and that with decreasing force. Suddenly she was free and drifting broadside to the wind till the anchor checked her and she brought up to leeward of it, rocking easily and triumphantly." Riddle's most famous nautical scene involves a desperate 13-mile trip...
...after the crash, he left the hospital for his farm near Salzburg. With the help of a physical therapist, he worked himself back into shape. Precisely six weeks after his accident, he entered the Italian Grand Prix at Monza and finished fourth. But first had come a terrifying practice round. Said Lauda: "It was raining, really horrible conditions, and I had to go out to see if I could still do my work. The car was aquaplaning. I was really scared and I stopped. But the next day, it was dry, so I got in the car. It took...