Word: swingingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tournament circuit ("I couldn't make a dime"), settled into a succession of club jobs-at Long Island's Valley Stream Country Club, at the Westchester Embassy Club, at Grossinger's in the Catskill Mountains. His students included Steelman Charles M. Schwab ("The lousiest golf swing I ever saw"), and his reputation grew quickly. In 1953, as head pro at Miami's West View Country Club, Ross taught Cleveland Indians Third Baseman Al Rosen the fundamentals of golf. That summer Rosen clouted 43 homers, drove in 145 runs, was named the American League's Most...
...will also meet the top financial men of Britain, The Netherlands, Belgium and Sweden. After this month's session of the International Monetary Fund in Washington, at which Fowler wants a preparatory commission set up to get ready for a world money conference, he plans to take another swing abroad to talk with finance ministers he will not see this time...
...around) than Cassius Clay's, Aaron, 31, is a superb fielder, a dangerous base runner (19 stolen bases in 22 attempts) as well as a natural hitter who says, "I just grab a bat and look for the baseball. If it's near the plate, I swing at it." Technically, he does almost everything wrong: he stands at the very back of the batter's box (where it is practically impossible to reach pitches before they break), has a hitch in his swing, hits off his forward foot, regularly swings at the first pitch, is a notorious...
...West Side slum. As for style, here are some examples: ' 'Wolf, wolf,' he woofed"; "she took the smoke forms of his own emotion, and sopped up looks and flung them off as if she were electrified"; "her breasts were big jubilant bells without needing to swing, her waist was a scooping of lissome lines...
...couple of helpful fellows tear down a wooden bridge railing that was blocking his shot to the 1st green. That cost him two penalty strokes and a six for the hole. Next day he knocked a rock out of a gully on the llth hole while taking a practice swing. Two more penalty strokes for grounding his club in a hazard. Score after three rounds: 221, eight strokes over par. Nicklaus...