Word: wickedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Wicked French
Even before Alabama became a state (1819), riffraff, bond jumpers, cardsharps and other fugitives from Georgia were crossing the muddy Chattahoochee River to find haven in wicked little Phenix City. As time passed, respectable families came to Phenix City, too, but gamblers, pimps and narcotics pushers still ran the town...
At the Greenbrier Open in 1951, he had a tremendous moment on the 12th hole, a wicked, 535-yard par five. Sam's drive faded into the rough, but left him with a fair lie. He asked Curtis Griffith, his regular caddy, what club he recommended.
ing balls into a staked-out, 35-yard circle (Baltusrol's fairways average 35 yards in width) and putting into a three-inch cup (the official U.S.G.A. cups are 4¼ inches in diameter), had honed his game to a wicked keenness. His body showed few signs of age...
In Britain, the very failure of U.S. plans for "united action" brought a sense of relief. The Times of London was notably pleased, and seemed to have made a discovery for itself, to wit, that the Americans are not wicked warmongers, after all.