Word: round
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Barclay has four veteran guards, Steve Davis, Bill Henry, Bill Brady, and Chip Gannon--all of practically equal ability. While it's a toss-up between the first three to see who starts against the Engineers, Barclay figures it will take time to round Gannon's football knees into shape...
...that the U.A.W., with its leadership unified for the first time since it was organized in 1934, would lose its militancy. In fact, it might well become more rambunctious than ever. Walter Reuther lost no time in warning the auto industry that it must cut prices or face another round of wage demands...
Among the plain people, ripples of cold fear ran up & down Italy's long spine. TIME Correspondent Emmet Hughes cabled from Naples: "In a café on the Via Medina, I asked the sad, round-faced proprietor behind the marble counter how afraid he was. His stubbly chin trembled and the watery blue eyes seemed ready to gush tears as he said, 'Of course I'm afraid. How many Italians have to die? You Americans killed some. The Germans killed others. Now it seems we're going to kill each other. We've got poverty...
...caddy Demaret tips his caddies as much as $150 for a tournament (the usual pro's tip: $5 a round). In match play, Demaret usually does badly. After Ben Hogan drubbed him 10 and 9 last year in the P.G.A. Championship semifinals, newsmen asked what was the turning point of the match. Replied Jimmy dryly: "When Hogan showed up." But Jimmy has won the prized Masters' Tournament twice...
Prospect. Among the other additions would be three large ships for the New York-Mediterranean route, and five round-the-world cruisers. The committee urged that the Government start the program with a flat 50% subsidy of all costs, estimated at some $500 million...