Word: round
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That night, Señior Mike was Harry Truman's guest at a gold-plate state dinner in the White House. He slept there, too. Next morning, the President of the U.S. saw him off on a busy round of sightseeing and wreath-laying. "I think he's having a good time," said Harry Truman. "He's a grand...
...against the Government's 346). But he stuck to his popgun and in the next three hours forced 15 more voting divisions, kept the members trudging to & from the voting lobbies. (It was a trying night for one-legged Transport Minister Alfred Barnes, but he made all 16 round trips on his cork...
...brief stint on his own in the Hub made the move to Cambridge. He had never enjoyed an education of his own so basking in the erudition of others appeared an attractive substitute. "If you gonna go near a big college," he explains thirty-five years after, "you be 'round the better people...
Delegates to last weekend's regional meeting of the National Students Organization will broadcast a round table discussion over WHCN at 9:30 o'clock tonight, the Network has announced. Student rights, the history and purpose of the NSO and other topics highlighted at the two-day parley will be summarized in the half-hour discussion, which was recorded at the end of the conference...
...wanted something to make them feel better, and London's press had built Heavyweight Bruce Woodcock, a conscientious pug-ugly, into a minor national symbol of hope. Then Joe Baksi, an invader from the U.S., rudely flattened the symbol by breaking Woodcock's jaw in the first round and going on to a seventh-round technical knockout. The BBC announcer made the fight sound as if a big bully had picked on a nice little man in the street who was harmlessly minding his own business...