Word: round
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Political & Security Committee went issues like George Marshall's proposals for a year-round "Little Assembly," the veto, and independence for Korea, and Andrei Vishinsky's demand for measures "against propaganda and the inciters of a new war." Last week the committee waded into the U.S. motion to charge Yugoslavia, Albania and Bulgaria with threatening Greece, and to send an Assembly peace-watch to the Balkans. Cried Andrei Gromyko in good voice: "A Fascist clique is hatching plans...
Just before he leaves home in the morning, the average working-class husband in Mexico City gives his wife el gasto (expense money). Depending on his income, he doles out 5 to 25 pesos ($1 to $5). Then his wife starts on what used to be a pleasant round of spending...
...toniest hotel be completed in time for November's UNESCO conference, and all around Rivera's paunchy figure carpenters and electricians bent noisily to the presidential will. But Rivera's own share of the work, he at last decided, was done. An assistant handed him a round brush wet with yellow paint, and Rivera quickly added a few touches. Then he thrust his soft little hands into the pockets of his dungaree jacket and walked away. He was bone-tired but content. At 61, when everyone had said he was slipping, he had felt himself...
Last week, Johnny Suggs's daughter, now 24, fought through to the final round of the Women's National Amateur Golf Championship at the Franklin Hills Country Club (Detroit). Her opponent was Fellow Atlantan Dorothy Kirby, who is considered, by home-towners, a shade the better. Dorothy, whose playing form is good, is high-strung, and apt to show it under pressure. Louise is a trim 5 ft. 3 in., with a roundhouse swing that would look good on a ballplayer swinging for the fences...
...Travel is terrific this year," Bingham explained. "We used to get round trips for a fare and a tenth, but, the railroads don't care what they charge now and we have to pay regular rates." He said salaries for all coaches run under $100,000, and that, contrary to popular opinion, the third-string quarterback does not make more than a full professor. No coach's salary, in fact, exceeds that of a professor. Laundry bills run high, especially for towels, the players always want more to eat, calling for steak when they get roast beef, and incidentals cost...