Word: slammings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Augusta National was founded in 1930 by Jones, the wealthy Atlantan who astounded the golfing world that same year by sweeping all four of the game's major tournaments: the U.S. and British Amateurs, the U.S. and British Opens. Retiring after his Grand Slam, Jones decided to build an "ideal" golf club on the site of an old indigo plantation in Augusta, a popular winter watering place for Northern socialites. The plantation's Georgian manor house was converted into a clubhouse, Scottish Architect Alister MacKenzie was commissioned to design a course that would, in Jones's words...
Against Amherst, only number four, Paul Oldfield's come-from-behind tie kept the Crimson from a 7-0 slam. Joe Tibbetts, playing number seven, also tied on the 18th hole, but played a sudden-death 19th hole which he birdied...
...starts getting pretty obnoxious. I tell him, 'Get lost, creep,' and he looks at me and says, 'You know something, buddy? You're a -,' I reach across the table, grab his tie, give it a half-turn, and cork him one. Then I slam his head down on the table, and it breaks a couple of beer bottles. The last I see of him, he's crawling out the door on his hands and knees. Later I find out he's a small-time hood and packs a gun. I've never...
Westmoreland's slam at Vietnam critics echoed a recent attempt by President Johnson to insure a minimum of strafing from his opponents, as his reelection campaign gets underway. "Men may debate and men may dissent, men may disagree, and God forbid that a time should come when men of this land may not," the President said, but he added that now was the time when debate should quiet and "men must stand...
Harvard swimmers produced some excellent times in the late events. Coming from behind in the last 10 yards, Burris won the 100-yard backstroke in 1:00.9, his best time this year. The freshmen recorded their third slam of the afternoon in the 100-yard breaststroke as Baumgart picked up the victory...