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Word: younkers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shot 76, low score of the day. But after the first round of match play, she was on the sidelines. So was Mrs. Holleran and Defending Champion Betty Jameson, generally considered the ablest of America's golfing sorority, who was put out by a bespectacled upstart named Janet Younker. Two or three rounds later they were joined by Mrs. Leichner, by six-time Champion Glenna Collett Vare, by twice runner-up Maureen Orcutt, by other pre-tournament favorites. By that time the gallery turned its toes toward Betty Hicks Newell, a pint-sized 20-year-old from Long Beach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Another Patty Berg? | 9/22/1941 | See Source »

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