Word: sank
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Burly Mike Souchak birdied the tough 16th hole to move within a stroke of the lead, but an overstroked approach gave him a bogey on the 18th and he was out of the running. Rosburg, who grips a club like a baseball bat, sank a chip shot and 30-ft. putt for successive birdies on the 11th and 12th. But on the final hole he needed to sink a 40-ft. putt to tie. It stopped a foot short, and Bill Casper was the U.S. Open champion...
...assassinated martyr. Earl Long hated his place in Huey's shade. To prove himself a better man, he merely proved himself a wilder one. In his role as a man of the people, he casually cleaned between his toes at press conferences. As a political fighter, he once sank his teeth into an opponent's throat. He billed himself as "Ole Earl," and. if he never became the national figure that Huey unquestionably was, he nonetheless kept Louisiana tightly under his thumb. That is, until recently, when he determined to gimmick his way around the Louisiana prohibition against...
Died. Sir David William Bone, 84, British master mariner who went to sea at 15, commanded troopships under fire in two wars (last to leave the torpedoed transport Cameronia in World War I, he grabbed the stay of a destroyer alongside as his ship sank), wrote several books about the sea (The Brassbounder, The Queerfella); in Farnham, England...
Courtney tried various athletics. He once took out a wherry (possibly on a bet) which struck a beer bottle, and sank under Eliot Bridge. A collie dragged him to safety. Courtney possessed unusual empathy with animals and was often warned about the pets he would keep in his room. His roommates minded only the baby albatross Courtney found off Cape Ann ("It seemed like such bad luck, at least potentially,") but the administration had less leniency...
...freshman golfers lost to the Bulldogs, 4 to 3, though Crimson John Livingood sank a 35 ft. birdie putt on the 21st hole, to win the number one match. Playing conditions were excellent on the long, well-trapped course...