Word: strokings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...regulation 72 holes, three early finishers sweated it out in the locker-room, tied up at 284. One was Byron Nelson, who would have won had he not been robbed by the rule book (it cost him a stroke when his caddy accidentally kicked his ball). His toughest competitor all winter, Ben Hogan, the little man with the deadly grin, had also looked like a winner, storming up the fairway to the last two holes. Then his putter went cold; he missed a two-footer on the last green. That finished...
Hides & Oil. At the stroke of midday, resplendent in the blue, gold encrusted dress uniform of a brigadier general (his new rank), Perón strode into the great hall of Congress. Floor and gallery gleamed with the brass of generals, the polish of diplomats-come to honor a man whose name few of them even knew three years...
Died. George Albert Hormel, 85, founder of George A. Hormel & Co. (now run by his son Jay), Minnesota meat-packing house which kills a million pigs a year ; after a stroke ; in Los Angeles...
Slated to row the 2000 meter sprint on Lake Washington are, at present, Sylvester Gardiner at stroke, Bim Chanler, Lane Barton, Paul Knaplund, Mike Scully, Tom Perry, Lew Bohn, and Barrie White in the bow, with Sam King behind the magaphone, in that order. John Gormley and Lou Cox will also make the trip...
Thorez not only put the United States first, he underlined the two words with a quick stroke of his pen. Then he smiled engagingly...