Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...messages about fish rising and rainbows flashing, the expected mass uprising failed to take place, and the tide of rebellion ran out. The airstrip at Jagüey Grande was seized, but when the first rebel B-26 came in to land, it hit unexpected ridges of sand that had drifted across the runway, and crashed. Paratroopers, dropped inland, were wiped out-few prisoners were taken. The invaders from the beach never quite reached Jagüey Grande. Obviously forewarned of the general area where the landing would take place ("Someone committed treason," charged a council member), Castro...
...year to explain Chrysler's poor showing. Last year, said Horvath, the glass and steel strikes were blamed, this year the profit squeeze and the "campaign of vilification" against management. "Who are you trying to fool, Mr. Colbert?" asked Horvath. "You've got your head in the sand and your flanks exposed to attack. You do all your planning with one hand on the panic button and the other in the till." Countered Colbert: "Chrysler has no problem that increased sales wouldn't cure...
...scuttling into a creek. He dropped out, took a one-stroke penalty, missed a 4-ft. putt, and scored an appalling double-bogey seven that left him tied with Palmer Shaken, Player fluffed a simple, 3-ft. puti on the 15th, dropped a stroke behind Staggering through a sand trap on the 18th; Player finished with a total of 280, eight strokes under par for the 72-hole tournament. Near tears and certain that he had lost, he hid out in Tournament Chairman Clifford Roberts' apartment to watch Palmer's finish on television...
...middle of the fairway. But his second shot, hit too hastily, veered into a shallow trap at the right edge of the green-the same trap Player's ball had found minutes before. The TV cameras panned in, showed Palmer's ball "plugged"-half buried in the sand-and Player began nervously to sip his drink...
...Blunder. Then Palmer, normally a flawless sand player, made an $8,000 blunder. He blasted out too strongly, belted his ball over the green and into the gallery, 25 ft. from the pin. Palmer stalked about the green, shaking his head, talking furiously to himself, while his playing partner, Charlie Coe, holed out. Finally Palmer took a putter, addressed his ball-and pushed it a full 12 ft. past the cup. A return putt was wide. Palmer finished with an incredible double-bogey six, slipped into a second-place tie (worth $12,000) with fast-closing Amateur Coe. New Masters...