Word: round
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many, wanting all these things, deserted. In the Berlin region alone, thousands deserted each month. Some simply went to the U.S. zone and tried to stay there. Others roamed the countryside. The Red Army had to ask the U.S. and British Armies to help round them...
Asia's Heart. The 90,000 round-faced, slant-eyed Tuvinians live in the geographical heart of Asia. They are mostly of Turkic and Mongol stock. With their 1,200,000 cattle, horses, sheep, goats, yaks and reindeer, they occupy an area about as large as Missouri. Moscow regards their evolution from nomadic tribalism to Soviet comradeship as a model of its kind...
Being the Point's best all-round athlete was something else again. After he got the upper hand of his studies, he became the all-conquering football team's top scorer. He gave up indoor track to play on the Point's potent (won 14, lost 1) basketball quintet. As center fielder on the baseball nine, Junior won a $75,000 appraisal label from Dodger President Branch Rickey. In West Point's famed Master of the Sword test-the 300-yd. run, dodge run, standing broad jump, vertical jump, bar vault, rope climb, chins, parallel...
Meanwhile, in France and Germany, troubadours packed the swelling legend with local heroism, heart-interest, a couple of Greek legends and an anecdote from the Orient. Finally, Britain's 15th-Century poet-knight, Sir Thomas Malory, conferred a Round Table knighthood on Tristan and made him and the lady now known as Iseult part of his famed Morte d'Arthur...
...past, intramural basketball will be organized on a round robin schedule, with the NROTC units taking part. Beginning early in December, inter-House tournaments will last until the holidays, when the Varsity will be called...