Word: fleabag
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Dates: during 1953-1953
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...world from Butte to Bahrein, U.S. Narcotics Agent White has got the evidence that has put thousands of peddlers behind bars. His wartime hitch as a lieutenant colonel in the Office of Strategic Services was no less interesting. At one point he stepped from the closet of a Calcutta fleabag rooming house, pistol in hand, just as a Japanese spy was about to knife a U.S. soldier. "I had to kill the spy on the spot," White recalls...
...Break. Like most topflight golfers, Texas-born Lloyd Mangrum started as a caddy. And like most, he found that cracking the pro circuit was a discouraging business. For three straight years Mangrum missed meals, slept in fleabag hotels, and was grateful when he was lucky enough to pick up $50 in a match. In 1940 he got his first break: an invitation to play in Bobby Jones' Masters Tournament. Mangrum, then 25, blazed an opening-round 64, the best recorded up to that time in major-tournament play, and still a Masters record...