Word: skyhigh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week, as the two-day Cup matches got under way. an icy wind roared off the Firth of Clyde, dumping rain and sleet on Ailsa. "I'd heard about this Scottish weather," complained one U.S. golfer, "but I never believed it before." The Americans blew skyhigh. U.S. Amateur Champion Labron Harris lost to Ireland's David Sheahan, one up. California's Richard Davies, the 1962 British Amateur champion, blew a three-hole lead to England's Mike Bonallak. When night finally fell, the upset-minded British took a 6-3 lead with them into...
...drive is to get a bigger share of that market-as well as the smaller, fast-expanding markets in Australia, Asia and Africa. U.S. automakers realize that their U.S.-made cars are generally too big, costly and thirsty for countries where import duties, taxes and gasoline prices are skyhigh. Last year, in the world's increasing markets, the U.S. exported only 117,000 cars, little more than half the 1955 total. Detroit has come to believe that the best way to compete abroad is to build foreign cars, with foreign workers, in foreign plants. Says Henry Ford II, president...
Spreading his impeccable tails, Hale has ridden the art boom skyhigh. "If something happens in San Francisco," he murmurs confidently, "it will usually cross my desk within a week. I know all the able artists who can give valuable opinions on new art. The rise in pictures I have bought is phenomenal; the market has moved up with me, you know...
...than a century ago his clansmen enthusiastically followed the Emperor's orders by opening fire on all foreign ships passing through Shimonoseki Strait, the narrow western entrance to the lovely Inland Sea. Retaliation came from a combined British, French, Dutch and U.S. fleet, which blew the Choshu batteries skyhigh, put ashore a landing party to seize the forts, and collected an indemnity of $3,000,000.-Impressed, the Choshu leaders fraternized with the Western officers, begged technical advice and sought to buy big guns like those that had destroyed their forts. Observes a present-day Japanese intellectual...