Word: pinehurst
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...When Pizarro and his fellow Christians took over the empire, one of their first acts was to make coca chewing available to the whole populace. The result was that there was no effort to resist or overthrow the Spaniards because of the lethargy the drug produced. Gordon H. Dalton Pinehurst...
...which grew into the nation's foremost containership operation. In 1969 he sold Sea-Land to Reynolds Tobacco for about $500 million. Then through his solely owned McLean Securities Inc., he invested in a life insurance venture and real estate holdings through the South and Southwest, including Pinehurst, the 7,500-acre golf resort in North Carolina...
Ross's masterpiece was Pinehurst, which he laboriously molded out of the sand hills of North Carolina by using mule-drawn drag-pans. Overnight. Pinehurst became the mecca of American golf. The idea of building a resort at Pinehurst was the brainstorm of another Bostonian, the soda-fountain magnate James W. Tufts. On Monday, April 10, the Harvard golfers open the new season with a dual match against Tufts and Amherst
September 11: Ford travels to Pinehurst, N.C. to attend the induction of the first 13 members of the World Golf Hall of Fame. He calls the 13 golfers the "kind of idols who are good and wholesome for Americans." He plays golf with Arnold Palmer and Gary Player...
...such taunts as THE COUNTRY WON'T STAND FOR IT?a mockery of Ford's declaration about a pardon for Nixon, which Ford made during the Senate hearings to confirm him as Vice President. In an otherwise pleasant outing to help dedicate a World Golf Hall of Fame in Pinehurst, N.C., Ford faced more banners: IS NIXON ABOVE THE LAW? and JAIL CROOKS, NOT RESISTERS...