Word: swipes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jack Nicklaus is strong for status. In only two years on the pro tour, he has already won three of golf's Big Four tournaments-the U.S. Open, the Masters and the P.G.A.-and missed the fourth (the British Open) by a single swipe of his putter. He has $98,990 in official winnings this year, and he has turned the World Series of Golf (unofficial, says the P.G.A.) into a private endowment fund that pays him an extra $50,000 a year. He is franchised, merchandised, televised and incorporated. What more could a 23-year-old want...
...swipe at Britain's unilateral dis-armers, he said: "The treaty was not achieved by agitators sitting down in the public highway, but by statesmen sitting around the conference table." And he offered some invigorating invective against the "immature nonsense of socialism," which is trying to turn Great Britain into Little England. In a fourth Conservative election victory, said Butler, his party "must reject and repudiate these absurd aberrations of the left-wing mind...
...looks in vain for anything approaching a coherent theme. Miss McCarthy said in an interview several years ago the theme would be "the loss of faith in the idea of progress." What is left of that is an occasional ironic swipe at the shallowness of the radicalism...
...number of Negroes-and just as predictably, Connor reverted to form. He broke up a march on city hall by ordering mass arrests. "Call the wagons, Sergeant, I'm hungry," barked Bull. Next day he called out his police dogs. A 19-year-old Negro youth took a swipe at one with a clay pipe. The dog turned on the boy, and a crowd of Negroes surged forward, one carrying a knife. It took some 15 cops and their dogs to break up the melee...
...guess where the money went. Tshombe's own Katangese officials had withdrawn huge sums of money without troubling to leave receipts. One unnamed official waltzed off with 133 million Katangese francs (worth $2,660,000 at the official exchange rate of 50 to $1 ) in a single swipe. Some 4,000 gold coins valued at $280,000 were smuggled to Geneva for sale by a European syndicate. There was evidence that the bank had transferred 1 billion francs to a branch 150 miles away in Ndola, Northern Rhodesia, to buy arms and pay mercenaries...