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...This has been tough weeks on Bush, too. He?s had his own two-front war - against the insinuation from Richard Clarke that he was caught unawares about September 11 and against charges that he?d driven the country into an Iraqi sandtrap. Bush?s goal was to correct that impression, to look tough and unwavering. (His critics might say that?s the problem.) He ended his speech-cum-press conference with a none too subtle jab at John Kerry, noting ?when I say something, I mean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sizing Up Bush's Press Conference | 4/13/2004 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Hot Winds & Frail Borders | 12/10/1956 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Come On, Little Ball! | 6/21/1954 | See Source »

...famous for its remote-control system of coaching, since the only way to improve is to practice by yourself. By the time a man is good enough to make the team, he presumably knows enough to keep his eye on the ball and not use a driver in a sandtrap...

Author: By John J. Sack, | Title: Golf Team, Minus a Team, Opens Its Schedule in Dixie | 3/24/1949 | See Source »

...Mother Ouimet exaggerates. Not the whole hole, but a sandtrap on it into which Vardon went is called "The Vardon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Old Bostonian | 9/14/1931 | See Source »

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