Word: sams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story in U.N. World was based on a plant, probably by the Polish or Czech delegation at U.N. Its purpose: to help persuade U.S. opinion that the Atlantic pact was unnecessary. The Atlantic pact is still a great concern of Russian propagandists; a recent Krokodil cartoon showed Uncle Sam launching human torpedoes-Winston Churchill and John Foster Dulles-from a submarine labeled Atlantic Pact...
...burning up the courses like a Virginia grass fire. He shot hard and accurate golf to win the Masters Tournament in April, and he was red-hot last week as he stroked his way to the P.G.A. championship at Richmond's Hermitage Country Club. In between times, Sam was warm enough to scoop up seven other prizes, boosting his winnings for the year to $12,610, tops in the trade. Unless something put the fire out he figured to have the biggest of all tournaments, this week's U.S. Open, at his mercy. And all because...
...Speaker Sam Rayburn: "I'll believe Stu Symington is a crook when he comes up here and tells...
After five days of match play, the task of turning back the Americans fell squarely on the broad shoulders of 200-lb. Ulsterman Sam McCready. Not many people had heard of 31-year-old Sam: a salesman for a London tobacco firm, he had never swung a club in the nationals before. But in the semifinals, there was Sam, wearing a fixed half-smile on his broad face. He teed off against Frank Stranahan. A brisk wind blew in from the Irish Sea. Between the wind and Sam McCready's smile, Stranahan's game folded up. He went...
...finals, Willie Turnesa was tougher. The wind blew and thunder cracked overhead as he and Sam fought their way round 36 holes. As late as the 32nd hole Willie was i up. But Sam McCready dug into the old sod and finished with a birdie on the 35th to win the title, 2 and i. Said a Portmarnock Club official: "The kindly Irish weather came to our help." Said Sam, grasping the 2-ft. trophy: "Baby...