Word: stream
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...often made the low 80s.) His driving was as sound as ever, but his putting was way off form. He had his toughest time on the Club's twelfth, the "make or break hole." It is a nasty, short hole (155 yards) with an elevated tee and a stream running between tee and green. Ike plunked his first shot into the water. Undismayed, he teed-up another, laid it twelve feet from the pin, was down in two putts for a five...
...drawbacks of advancing years," writes Monsignor Ronald A. Knox, in his latest book, The Hidden Stream, "that you never feel quite sure to what extent the coming generation has abandoned the idols of your youth." Monsignor Knox, 65, might reassure himself by looking at his own popularity. A shy but witty man with an archly pure sense of scholarship, Roman Catholic Knox, in his tastes and in the clarity of his thinking harks back to the rigorous England of his youth. Yet a modern public which by & large can no longer digest the simplest of his Latin quotations still queues...
...Oscar Shay, an enthusiastic amateur of Portales, N. Mex., recently found what is probably the first authentic bone of Folsom Man, a mysterious race of hunters who lived 10,000 years ago. Shay went bone-hunting with Jerry Ainsworth, a student at Eastern New Mexico College. Near a small stream called Blackwater Draw, they found the skeleton of a "dire wolf," a husky, toothy, carnivorous beast that died out toward the end of the glacial period...
Each year the digging fever grows. Archaeologist Emil Haury of the University of Arizona gets a stream of valuable finds from construction men, Indians and soldiers on maneuvers. Recently he was asked to speak before a meeting of the Arizona Cattle Growers' Association to tell them what their cowhands should look for while out on the range. Besides giving advice, the archaeologists make a plea: don't mess up a promising site. Tell the professionals. They'll help you and give you credit...
...people who hope to travel upriver to well-being." Along the winding course ahead are a doctor and patient, a family bathing, nurses drying a sheet before a fire, a good Samaritan carrying a patient across a bridge, and a shepherd with his flock. At the source of the stream a couple roams blissfully in the paradise they have found at journey's end. In its quiet mixture of suffering, hope and joy, the window is altogether appropriate to the hospital setting. The wet light that falls through the colored glass is suggestive less of tears than of cleansing...