Word: tam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...setbacks on a golf course. "I'll beat it," she said. The doctors had just told her that she had cancer. Before she went under anesthesia for a three-hour operation less than four months ago, husband George Zaharias told the Babe, "Honey, we'll be at Tam O'Shanter this year." Last week, with doctors marveling at her recuperative power (the Babe calls it "spiritual muscle"), she was back on the golf course playing in Chicago's Tam O'Shanter tournament...
...hole playoff of the $90,000 "World" golf tournament, with a score of 68 to beat out Runner-Up Gary Middlecoff, who carded a 70, after both pros had wound up in a 72-hole tie, each with a 12-under-par total of 276; at Chicago's Tam O'Shanter Country Club. To Winner Boros went the biggest prize in golf history: $25,000. Other 72-hole leaders: Jim Ferrier and Roberto de Vicenzo, 277; Sam Snead and Dave Douglas, 279; Henry Ransom and Lew Worsham...
...during the 1948 Berlin blockade, and demanded daily instead of the routine monthly payments on all rail freight charges. West Berliners were delighted by a tit-for-tat British gesture: surrounding for seven days a Communist radio station in the British sector with barbed wire and a cordon of tam-o'-shan-tered Scottish troops, trapping inside 40 East Germans and 20 Russian soldiers...
Only four of the five judges wore the traditional tam-o'-shanter caps, but all five were traditionalist enough to get down on their hands & knees to peer and poke at the curlicues of ice shavings. The occasion, solemnified at Indianapolis last week by the undignified postures of the judges: the figure skating tryouts for the U.S. Olympic team...
...tartaned, tam-o'-shantered Scots who had descended on London for the annual England v. Scotland football match at Wembley gathered outside the abbey, but made no effort to snatch the prize. To a crowd of 600 in Trafalgar Square, indefatigable Nationalist Wendy Wood, leader of the Scottish Patriots' Association, cried, "The Stone belongs to Scotland; we shall get it back." But most Britons, English and Scots alike, seemed to feel that the joke had gone on quite long enough...