Word: tee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Amid the controversy, a group of wealthy Californians wanted to show that one improvement at the Western White House-a three-hole, nine-tee golf course built on 2½ acres of scrubland in 1969-was a no-strings-attached gift from a group of Orange County golfing businessmen. One of the organizers, Shopping Center Magnate Oscar W. (Dick) Richard of Newport Beach, Calif., calls the group "76 of the nicest guys in America doing something wonderful for a great President." After a tour of the course, which is generally barred to commoners, TIME Correspondent Leo Janos reported...
...pose well-reasoned and sequential follow-up questions. Hawaii Democrat Daniel K. Inouye, almost as melodious but terser, intoned crisp, relevant queries. Readiest with information of his own was Connecticut Republican Lowell P. Weicker Jr., who may turn out to be the roughest and most combative of the commit tee members. Georgia Democrat Herman E. Talmadge scowled frequently but talked the least, while New Mexico Democrat Joseph M. Montoya seemingly had not always heard previous answers. Minority Counsel Fred D. Thompson was grimly aggressive and quick thinking...
...wristwatch with a magnetic field to deflect bullets. A bad guy named Tee Hee who has a metal hand that can crush a gun to talcum powder. Voodoo sacrifices and a pool of 86 hungry crocodiles, each of them waiting for just one bite of the struggling hero. It sounds like a comic strip, and in a way it is. The newest James Bond movie, Live and Let Die, is the most inventive-and the most potentially lucrative-comic strip ever made, two hours of thrilling, high-powered nonsense...
...Pronounced mur-ka-tee...
...morning to get the early jobs and jump on the other caddies. I forced myself to work five days a week: Dave worked six and got more points and a plaque at the caddy banquet at the end of the year. We caddied a lot together laughing on the tee when the golfers weren't looking, stealing golf balls from behind the screen on six, making faces at the old rich women on Ladies Day, wondering what size tip we would get, and joking with the Rock: Rocco Stiliciano, the middle-aged caddiemaster who loved us both...