Word: scottishly
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...These greens are awful," Ben Hogan told his new Scottish friends. "It's like putting on glue. I've got a lawnmower back in Texas. I'll send it over to you." Indeed, U.S. Champion Hogan, making his first practice rounds of the old municipal golf course at Carnoustie on the eve of the British Open, saw very little that he liked...
...from rain, milled in wild combat with knife, musket butt and tomahawk at Oriskany in the New York wilderness. Cowpens, Brandywine, Germantown-all were bloody. The revolution pitted strange adversaries. At Eutaw Springs, the American force was heavily loaded with British deserters, the British force with American deserters. Kilted Scottish-American settlers fought for the king with broadswords at Moore's Creek Bridge...
...said, wakened him one night in a convulsive fit. He strangled her with a stocking. Victim No. 5 was Kathleen Maloney who, he said sadly, demanded money for his attentions to her; No. 6 was Rita Nelson, who was six months pregnant; No. 7 was Hectorina MacLennan, a young Scottish mother...
...Dundee, Scotland, U.S. Open Golf Champion Ben Hogan, warming up for the British Open, arched Scottish eyebrows by posting consecutive scores of 69 and 70 for his first two practice rounds on the rugged, 7,200-yd Carnoustie course. Record for the course in tournament competition...
...Scottish-born Dr. Mackay promptly issued a press statement warning against "a new form of idolatry" threatening the U.S. This, he said, is the "passionate, unreflective opposition to the Communist demon [which] is coming to be regarded as the one and only true expression of Americanism, and even of Christianity. It is proper to abhor Communism. Communism is an evil-let there be no mistake about that. But the spirit to which I refer, this new cult of negation, is something quite different...