Word: round
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end the lower house had not got round to debating the treaty. But ratification was assured. Juan Peron was also reported to have promised U.S. Ambassador George Messersmith: 1) to nationalize six Nazi businesses; 2) to sell 30 more to Argentine citizens; 3) to deliver at least some of the wanted Nazis to the Allies. This last was the nub of the business, and the State Department wanted action, not paper promises...
...came to be called "Mr. Golf" was sick & tired of the game. Last week Byron Nelson, nervous, greying and ailing at 34, turned up in Portland, Ore. to defend his national pro championship. Before the tournament got under way he announced that it was his farewell to year-round golfing...
Culminating the two week competition in the University doubles tennis tournament, Austin Fox 2G, and Coach Robert Ashley won the final round last Saturday afternoon on the Business School Courts...
...automatic. Another is Producer-Director Howard Hawks's fellow feeling for the Chandler world: even on the chaste screen Hawks manages to get down a good deal of the glamorous tawdriness of big-city low life, discreetly laced with hints of dope addiction, voyeurism and fornication. A round dozen minor players help him out with great efficiency- not to mention Miss Bacall, who is like an adolescent cougar...
...such pleasures, like the ring on the merry-go-round, cannot be enjoyed at leisure. Marlowe's more serious work takes him to a glass-eyed bookseller's orgy-nest just in time to find him dead, with Miss Vickers, squiffed in a Chinese gown, giggling over the remains. He takes the heiress home and hurries on to watch a painfully inept blackmailer (Louis Jean Heydt) catch a bellyful of lead; no time later, Marlowe is kicking the killer in the face...