Word: round
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that 98% of his constituents would also object, and told his colleagues that he had written a book giving his reasons for objecting.* After that, North Dakota's Republican Senator William Langer reared up to announce that the whole United Nations setup was a square peg in a round hole, a phony and a lot of bunk...
...draw the fine line between genuinely religious doctrine and social propaganda. Advocates of the Bunce directive pointed out that modern Shintoism has shallow roots, and that many-perhaps most-Japanese would welcome its modification. There remained, however, the danger that at some future date revived Japanese nationalism would rally round the "persecuted" Shinto faith...
Last week Chief Justice Stone produced a list of the paintings, which was sure to make museum directors come hurrying round to beg for just a peek. Among the 202 masterpieces were five Botticellis, 15 Rembrandts, six Rubens, six Van Eycks...
...angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them, and they were sore afraid...
...plumpish, round-faced colonel, just back from Germany, appeared last week before the Senate's cartel investigating committee. In the voluminous charts and documents under his arm, Colonel Bernard Bernstein, onetime U.S. Treasury aide and now head of the Army's cartel investigations, had all that the Army has learned about Germany's world-girdling I.G. Farben, and he wanted to warn U.S. industrialists what they are still up against...