Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...made 2½ wood from his bag and aimed a daring shot right at the pin. He flubbed it; the ball landed in a fairway bunker. Trying desperately for the green, he slashed an iron shot that landed on an overhanging lip above a sandtrap, rolled back toward the sand and hung precariously in long grass. On his fourth shot, with one foot in the trap and one out, Snead overshot the green and fell into another bunker. Then someone told him he had to get down in two to tie Byron Nelson. He snapped: "Why didn't somebody...
Jones believes that golfers should be given strategic alternatives. He sets sand traps, trims rough and crooks fairways so that high-handicap players can fire a safe, conservative route to the green. But he always puts in a challenge for the expert, a long carry over trees or water to a good approach position, a reward for accuracy and daring. He lays out rolling, contoured greens where pins can be placed in the open or tightened up behind protecting bunkers...
...years Dr. Ghoneim has been digging laboriously into a shapeless hill near the "step pyramid" of Zoser, 15 miles south of the Pyramid of Cheops. Prompted by ancient lore, he suspected that it might be more interesting than it looked. Under the sand, he found the corner of a low wall. As his laborers shoveled the sand away, he found another corner. "I've got a pyramid!" cried Dr. Ghoneim. The hill was indeed the base of a pyramid that was never finished...
...esoteric calculations known only to Egyptologists, Dr. Ghoneim tried to figure where the long-forgotten entrance might be. His laborers poked into the sand and at last found a rubble-choked tunnel slanting down into the hill. Bit by bit the debris was cleared away. The tunnel extended into the living rock and apparently reached a dead end 121 ft. from the entrance. Dr. Ghoneim, wise in such matters, was not discouraged, and eventually he uncovered the entrance of a second tunnel. Unlike the first, it was not barren. Ranged along it were the doorways of 120 separate chambers, some...
...Angeles hoodlum named Joseph and Mary Rivas, who graduated from "switch knives, snap guns . . . and, for the very poor, socks loaded with sand" to ownership of the Lee Chong Grocery, and now keeps busy trying to figure out a way to cheat at chess...