Word: scoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...active in church work and affairs connected with your fraternal organization, but you still find time (40.8 days a year) for your favorite hobby. Reading is tops-closely followed by fishing, gardening, photography. Your usual golf score is around 95. (You had 12 golfballs at the beginning of 1947, and during the year you bought 13, found six, acquired nine by "other means." By the beginning of 1948 you had lost eleven, demolished seven, given away...
...Cure for Hunger. In the dark street outside, brightened only by the headlights of the dignitaries' cars, a score or so of Germans watch curiously. A woman mutters savagely: "The Russian women have dresses on now. but you can see they still aren't used to them." The other women murmur appreciatively at the swishing skirts, bright prints and daring necklines that flash quickly from the door to the cars, but one husband says angrily: "Come along home. This is no cure for being hungry." In the dark street, hate blazes furiously-but not too noisily...
...musicians' pay, and on the fourth day, just as Benny Goodman was going on to tootle a clarinet version of Debussy's Rhapsody for Saxophone and Orchestra, the union called its men off the job. Dorati, who had sat up half the night studying Debussy's score on a plane from Chicago (he had flown out the night before to conduct in Chicago's Grant Park), took the bad news with a good nature rare among conductors in crises...
...score his beat, Reporter Bigart had to "disappear" for two weeks. He was in Belgrade, and had told his office he was going to Rome to buy clothes. The first the Trib knew of his perilous mission was when the visit was broadcast over the rebel radio. (The U.S. Embassy at Athens, still nervous after Folk's murder, passed the word to the Trib that it would not be responsible for Bigart's safety...
Pitched Tents. The oil rush was on. Texas Co., Humble Oil & Refining Co., Barnsdall Oil Co. and a score of other companies had moved into the field. As far as land was concerned, they had to take Richfield's leavings. Richfield had shrewdly bought leases before its first well came in, now controlled 150,000 acres of land...