Word: stroke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stroke of Luck. Faraday grew up in a London slum. His parents were kindly, God-fearing and bone poor-the boy at times had nothing to eat but bread and water. At 14, he was apprenticed to a bookbinder-bookseller who took a shine to the likely lad and let him browse through his library. At 20, Michael began to attend scientific lectures, and at 21 he suffered a fateful stroke of luck. He caught the eye of Sir Humphrey Davy, the greatest chemist in England, who hired him as an assistant and whisked him off to the Continent...
...wonder how many laymen," writes Dr. X, "ever even dream that 60 of the city's doctors gather voluntarily for the sole purpose of keeping themselves sharp and on their toes?" For every lapse of skill, Intern cites ten occasions where a brilliant diagnosis, or a skillful stroke of the scalpel, frustrated man's ultimate enemy...
Parker's crew got off to a two foot lead, understroking Vesper 40 to 42 at the start. But the quarter mile mark was the last time the Philadelphia crew was headed. With a twenty-stroke burst they shot past Harvard and picked up the three-quarters of a length they were never to lose...
Unerring Accuracy. "Nobody ever wins the Open," Bobby Jones once said. "Someone always loses it." On the last day Nagle did his best to lose when he double-bogeyed the 15th hole, taking four to get down from a trap off the green. That gave Player a three-stroke lead-which he politely relinquished by three-putting the 16th. After 18, they were all even with a 72-hole total of 282-two over par. Playoff...
Next day, still remembering the script, Nagle was trailing Player by a stroke after four holes, and decided to put a little extra on his fifth drive. With unerring accuracy, the ball described a half-circle and gonged Miss Alma Pearson of Milwaukee squarely on the head. Blood spurting from her scalp, she shut her eyes and sank slowly to the ground. My God, thought Nagle, I've killed her. "Don't let it get you," said Player. "It happens to all of us." Play on, ordered an official. Nagle swallowed hard, swung-and belted a grass cutter...