Word: sandtrap
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jordan (pop. 1,500,000), a precarious sandtrap, is currently host to a Syrian brigade and an Iraqi brigade, nominally there to help defend it against Israel, but ready to pick up the pieces if Jordan itself flies apart. New Premier Suleiman Nabulsi, echoing the demands of the Nasserites in his Parliament, last week demanded the stopping of Britain's $33 million annual subsidy, but significantly qualified his demand by waiting to see whether his Arab neighbors would make up the difference to keep his country going. One of the few remaining benefits London gets for its Jordanian subsidy...
...game, Sam took a custom-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...
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