Word: swing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flew blind for a long stretch, but passed the Soviet polar base 13 min. ahead of schedule, making about 100 m.p.h. On the "down" side they picked up radio communication with Anchorage (Alaska), Seattle and San Francisco, reported their position occasionally but not regularly. They were advised to swing east because of thick weather but kept on toward California. They almost reached Mexico, turned back north. For four hours no one knew where they were. Finally they found a hole in the fog near San Jacinto, landed skilfully in a cow pasture, handed out cards bearing the words "Eat," "Bath...
...roly-poly who stands about 5 ft. 8 in. in his silk socks and weighs 205 lb., goes on many a Roosevelt fishing trip, frequently visits the White House, attended the Du Pont-Roosevelt nuptials, accompanied the President on two of his three major campaign trips last year, a swing to Denver, another through West Virginia to Pittsburgh. Credited with having assembled the Brain Trust in 1932, Judge Rosenman, unlike the Brain Trusters, kept out of the limelight. Last week Judge Rosenman was drafted, but again for a spot far from the limelight. After a conference with his friend Franklin...
...higher every hour, the kind of weather in which U. S. professionals like to play bridge or write their memoirs. Carnoustie was now at its most devilish, the greens so waterlogged they had to be swept off with long canes, the footing so treacherous that a man could scarcely swing. One by one the U. S. professionals bogged down miserably. Dudley hooked consistently, fell back with a 78 in the morning round. Hagen was stuck with 80, Shute with 76. Only young Byron Nelson and Charles Lacey, British by birth, controlled their pitching and putting, carding respectively...
...Whitcombe was out in 39, they heard. Nursing every shot, Cotton reached the turn in 35, to learn that Whitcombe had straggled in with 76 for a total of 292. That left Cotton just 38 strokes to tie. His gallery trebled as, spurning waterproof clothes lest they bind his swing, the lithe, hawk-faced Cotton shot the first five holes of the final nine in four deliberate 45 and a 3, misputting only on the 18th for a 5. Needing only two more 45 and a 5 to win, he made the next two holes in 3 and 4, cautiously...
...Soaring Pilot Richard Chichester du Pont appraised the grim thunderheads with eager eyes, then took off in his big, sleek sailplane after an automobile tow. Up, up, up he circled on rising air currents, while hundreds of faces turned up at him from the ground. Pilots of motored planes swing far off their courses to avoid thunderheads but motorless Pilot du Pont had just the opposite idea in mind. Up 4,500 ft., directly over Harris Hill, he guided his ship directly into a thunderhead, rode along inside it for an hour during which he was lost to view. Coming...