Word: sam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bipartisan move began when Minority Leader Rayburn strode down the aisle. The 372 members present stopped their chattering as respected Sam Rayburn turned to the House...
...Glory be to God!" cried Preacher Poole into his microphone. "Pray for Sam Bell. Save Sam Bell. The Devil can only go so far. There'll be no jukeboxes in heaven." The faithful groaned and flung themselves to their knees; their own amplifiers rushed to meet Satan over Saunders Street with a full-throated Leaning on the Everlasting Arms...
...Pray for Sam Bell. Across the street in the Windmill, Sam Bell and his customers listened for several nights with mounting distaste. "It got louder and louder," says Sam. "I couldn't even hear the girls when they called the orders." Finally, one night last week, one of the Windmill's customers made a suggestion, and Sam Bell suited action to the word...
Billy Joe Patton, the bold and nerveless amateur who did so well in the Masters, got off fast with a field-leading 69. one under par. Next day he was far off the pace, with a 76. Sam Snead, great golfer and perennial money winner, still trying for his first Open title, was in trouble from the beginning. Gary Middlecoff, Lloyd Mangrum, Dick Mayer-usually reliable performers-stumbled and came to the halfway mark four strokes back...
After that, only Littler had a chance to catch him. No one else was close. But Littler needed a birdie 4 on the 18th for a tie. He missed an eight-foot putt, and Ed Furgol was the new champion. For sad Sam Snead it was small consolation to remember that before the tournament he had judged Baltusrol correctly. The winner, he had said, would card 284-just four over...