Word: turf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reid Jack, 33. Sergeant Ridgley went around the first 18 in par (72). Jack, onetime British Marine commando lieutenant, countered with 69. But the crowd was still with Ridgley, and a spectator tried to help the sergeant by grinding Jack's golf ball into the sun-baked turf. Ridgley was too tired to care. Although the 1957 British Amateur will be remembered for the semifinal known as "Harold's Homicide," Harold Ridgley lost the title to Reid Jack...
...Crashing through fences and lurching over jumps like the clumsy 20-to-1 shot it was, Mrs. Geoffrey Kohn's big chestnut gelding Sundew managed to keep its footing while 24 of the 35 starters in Britain's Grand National Steeplechase sprawled on the turf, won easily by eight lengths from Wyndburgh...
Finbarr was sitting before a turf fire when he made his final choice. Said he: "I was reading TIME'S account of the fight the Hungarians were putting up against the Russians. It was deeply moving-one of the finest pieces of reporting I had ever read. I thought of the sacrifices the men and women and children of Hungary were making for freedom. They were a symbol, I thought. And then I remembered that TIME had picked the G.I. in Korea as a symbol, and I knew they must pick a Hungarian now. So I put aside TIME...
...York Giants were off and running toward their first National Football League championship in 18 years. Then they stumbled, lost to Washington and Cleveland. When they met the Philadelphia Eagles on the rain-soaked turf of Connie Mack Stadium last week, the Giants had their choice of winning the Eastern Division title for the first time since 1946 or slithering sloppily toward second place. The Giants chose...
...consequences, however, were not quite so serious as they were in 1928 when Riegels, center and captain of the University of California's Rose Bowl team, ran from Georiga Tech territory over the Rose Bowl turf to his own one-yard line, setting up a Tech touchback several seconds later...