Word: terrain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eleven weeks and he had some catching up to do. For an hour after he got to Riviera, he sprayed balls from the practice tee-first with the No. 9 iron, then the No. 8 and on up the ladder to the woods. He considered the wind and terrain even in practice, controlled every shot as if the tournament had begun. He has a horror of what he calls the Sunday golfer's gravest sin: "Just hitting the ball without thinking." Like cigar-chomping Walter J. Travis, golf's hero of half a century ago, Hogan likes...
...armies had been cut off, and two others that tried to rescue it had exposed salients. The Red generals Chen Yi and Liu Po-cheng were trying to reinforce their badly mauled forces; the Communist supply lines from the north were long, and open to air attack in coverless terrain...
...lecture at the Army & Navy War Colleges and the Army's staff and command school. They also brought him the admiration of such men as Eisenhower, Marshall, Patton and Nimitz. Freeman still guides visiting generals over the Civil War battlefields near Richmond and no living person knows the terrain so well...
...ivory was worth ?3,600. Once when hundreds of rogue elephants ran wild in Cape Province, killing people and destroying property, the administrator of the province asked Pretorius to take on the job of extermination. Naturalist Sir Harry Johnson and two famous hunters had already given their opinions: the terrain and the danger made it impossible. "For a satisfactory fee" Pretorius went into the bush and did the job, killing as many as five...
Died. Emile St. Godard, 42, onetime king of the dog-team racers; of cancer; in The Pas, Manitoba. At 19 he won his first major race (200 miles over rough terrain in about 30 hours), later the same year won the Eastern International Dog Derby, so dominated the field for the next ten years that fans referred to the races as "St. Godard against the field." Occasionally he finished tough races with two or three dog-tired huskies riding in the sled...