Word: saltingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...iron jaw rattled at the sight of it. The tee is a rocky promontory jutting out into the Pacific Ocean. The next sight of land is another rocky promontory 192 yards down the California coast; in between, foaming breakers crash distractingly on the rocks. Hogan, no man to let salt water scare him, promptly overdrove the green; several of his fellow pros-including Jimmy Thomson and Ralph Hutchinson-dunked their first ball into the ocean...
Hazardous No. 8. At Pebble Beach, the hole that players feared most and the crowd most enjoyed was No. 8. It is a 425-yd. dogleg running around the edge of a steep cliff, with hazards to the right & left, and about 135 yards of salt water to go over. Lloyd Mangrum, playing the kind of golf that made him 1946's U.S. Open Champion, got his par. His final score for the 54 holes: 205, ten under par. Said Mangrum, collecting the $2,000 first prize:* "This is my week off. I'm playing here...
...than medals to solve the family doctor's problems. In Cleveland last week, a few family doctors spoke their minds. Said a Grand Rapids, Mich, doctor: "At present, the general practitioner can't even remove tonsils in a hospital. He has become a glorified orderly." Said a Salt Lake County, Utah, doctor: "The general practice man is tired of being a reference bureau for the specialist...
Raising an almost imperceptible eyebrow (by mentioning that the letter came by prepaid cable), the Times ran Tovarish Shisheyev's dispatch in its news columns. It remained for a Times reader to supply the grain of salt. Wrote Russian-born J. Anthony Marcus, a veteran foreign-trade specialist: "It would not surprise me to learn that the 'chief engineer' had no more to do with the writing and dispatching of the cable than you or I. ... With about 1,600 words in the cable, even at the lowest rate, the cost would have been about $100, close...
James Duncan Phillips' book has none of the romance and the fresh salt air of Morison's unforgettable work; it is exact, down to earth, sometimes crabbed and partisan. Mr. Phillips is a retired businessman, for 25 years treasurer of Houghton Mifflin, and a local historian, the author of Salem in the Seventeenth Century and Salem in the Eighteenth Century, His prose is as clear and dry as a salary check. He has written what is probably the best history that there is, factual and authoritative, of an American port...