Word: snake
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British Open Championship in Scotland last week, Defending Champion Locke made careful preparations. A fortnight ahead of time, he was out practicing on the 72-year-old course at Troon, making mental notes of every danger along the snake-thin fairways, the postage-stamp greens...
...working themselves out. When Claudette tracks down her supposed husband, a gun goes off behind a closed door, and she is found alone with his corpse. Tried for murder, she is committed to a mental institution in a sequence that looks something like a screen test for The Snake...
...This year Sten had hoped to sail to the U.S.,* but he found it hard to raise the money. He settled for Rotterdam. Three weeks ago, with a crew of 15 stalwart young Swedish tram conductors, miners, plumbers, bakers and clerks to man the oars, the 80-foot Lusty Snake set off across the Baltic for the Kiel Canal...
...seamen of Ystad and Tralleborg shook their heads as the frail craft headed southwest. "They'll never clear a storm," they murmured. Eight days later the Lusty Snake passed through the Kiel Canal into the North Sea. Young Navigator Börje Persson, 26, who had just got his master's papers and quit his job on a trawler to join the voyagers, set the course for Rotterdam...
Last week high winds lashed at the sandbanks along the German coast. The winds brought bits of planking from the Lusty Snake and the drowned bodies of Sten Schroder, Viking, and one of his crew. No survivors have been found...