Word: circuited
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...halt. They sued Thomson on the grounds that his edict was unconstitutional, and U.S. District Judge Walter Jay Skinner agreed. Thomson could lower the flags, Skinner ruled, only if he proclaimed a secular reason for doing so. Next day, however, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit threw out Skinner's injunction. "A great victory," said Thomson, as he ordered all official flags-there are about 100 in the state-to half-staff. Thomson said he would personally haul down the flag at the State House...
...longer is there any maybe about it. At 21, Nancy Lopez is the hottest young golfer in the pro ranks. In eleven tournaments on the Ladies Professional Golf Association circuit, she has finished in the top ten seven times, beginning with a runner-up mark in her first competition, the 1977 U.S. Open. This spring she won two tournaments in a row before finishing second last week to South Africa's Sally Little in a sudden-death play-off at the Kathryn Crosby-Honda Civic Classic in San Diego. Long off the tee, extraordinarily accurate around the green...
...traditional lack of college athletic scholarships for women and new infusions of prize money-purses have doubled since 1975 to $3.4 million this year-tend to make top women amateur golfers into pros earlier than their male counterparts. The rising stars have done their growing up on the professional circuit and in the process have honed themselves into nerveless competitors while still in their teens and early 20s. The result is an aggressive, charging style of play that threatens to leave some of the tour's conservative veterans by the wayside. Says one longtime observer: "When I watched...
Untrue. Washingtonians can see him almost any day whizzing around town, often on foot. Tall, slim and elegant in his dark suit and white mustache, Strout avoids the cocktail circuit, preferring the evening company of Wife Ernestine and his longtime mistress, the printed word. "I read, read, read," he says. "You can't read enough. You can't know enough...
...earlier consolation singles final, sixth-seeded King stole a one-set victory from top-seeded Navratilova, capitalizing on a flat performance by the current Slims circuit sensation...