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WHEN she decided to concentrate on golf, she tightened up her game by driving as many as 1,000 golf balls a day and playing until her hands were so sore they had to be taped. She developed an aggressive, dramatic style, hitting down sharply and crisply on her iron shots like a man and averaging 240 yards off the tee. If a woman rival uses a six iron for a shot, Babe will likely as not use an eight out of sheer vanity. Once, when a man chivalrously offered her the honor in teeing off, she withered him with...
...angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid...
From the first, Taylor wouldn't take much argument from his 650-man staff, and still doesn't. "You might as well poke a bear with a sore tooth," says one curator. From the time he walked into the museum at 9:15 a.m. until he went home at 7 p.m.. he kept an eye on everything that went on, often roaming the galleries to see what the public was looking at. He still adheres to that daily schedule...
Preparing for his Korean trip in a manner painfully familiar to all ex-servicemen, General Dwight D. Eisenhower last week rolled up his sleeves for six "booster" shots-yellow fever, cholera, smallpox, typhus, typhoid and tetanus. Though this is a process which virtually guarantees the victim two sore arms and a fever, Ike showed no visible signs of discomfort as he bustled through a busy week of conferences, callers and ceremonies...
Under these present statutes, the case of Lillian Smith's Strange Fruit might have had a different ending. In fact, the case, tried before the amendments went into effect, pointed up the sore need for such revision...