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...task in competing with Fitzgibbons. He was not "playing a proud game," as caddies are wont to say. Nor is Fitzgibbons always the most encouraging of playing partners. His own words attest to his highstrung nature: "I can be a pretty intense player because I'm always hitting it rude...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: A Spring Round With Spence | 4/29/1977 | See Source »

...fourth tee: "If I don't hook this one I'm going to be ragged. That's one of the things I hate about golf--when you think you're doing something with your hands, and you're doing something else." Later on, a stray putt elicited: "What a rude putt. I just can't get the line right today...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: A Spring Round With Spence | 4/29/1977 | See Source »

...wants to be number one at a rude school?" Spence explains...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: A Spring Round With Spence | 4/29/1977 | See Source »

Supporters of the Equal Rights Amendment had long counted on Florida as one of the last three states needed to ratify the amendment. But they were in for a rude shock. Last week, after an emotional four-hour session, the Florida senate voted, 21-19, to defeat the ERA. Said a stunned ERA advocate: "I hope to God it isn't over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: The Unmaking of an Amendment | 4/25/1977 | See Source »

...have to be a Hollywood scriptwriter to guess what was going through Bally's mind those last hundred yards: here he was, an unknown foreigner, heading for the greatest athletic triumph of his life and world-wide fame. It is hardly worthwhile to belabor the pain of his rude awakening...

Author: By Jefferson M. Flanders, | Title: Two Marathon Stories | 4/19/1977 | See Source »

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