infamous = 'talked-about; popular'

[Joel S. Berson]

At 2/21/2013 07:03 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>Today CNN is saying "that highly talked-about golf match between President
>Obama and Tiger Woods."

Was the highly talked-about match "between" or "among"?  I haven't
read about the match, but on TV or radio I heard Tiger asked "who
won?" and he replied "we did".  Was Tiger paired with Barak?

Joel


>Note my suggested def. at the top of the thread.
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>(And the surprising - oops! I mean "eerie" - "Tiger Woods" connection....)
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>JL
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>On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 12:25 AM, W Brewer <brewerwa at gmail.com> wrote:
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