Word: round
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sheer rudeness. Even Stettinius and Eden opposed it on the wrong grounds: they simply thought that it would snarl up the whole conference procedure. Not until later did Molotov's opponents realize that in forcing him to back down-as he did-they had won the opening round in a long battle for free discussion...
...landed on six pinpoint islands between Saipan and Iwo, and took them at the cost of a single pistol shot. Back from a visit to the Marianas, General of the Army Henry H. Arnold announced that Superforts would soon operate from Okinawa, cutting over 1,000 miles from their round trip to Japan...
Four nights later, at Madison Square Garden, cautious, clever Red Cochrane did nobly for eight rounds against a self-confessed bum. But when Rocky Graziano made good with a ninth-round haymaker...
Busy. In Joliet, 111., Beekeeper Helge Johnson was ordered by the city to round up every one of his little charges or risk being fined $10 for each stray. With three days to avoid a possible $4,000,000 fine, Beekeeper Johnson got busier than any of his 400,000 bees...
...summer installment of the Class of 1949, entering today, Harvard will at first be a dreary round of lectures and reading notes. Harvard's summer term, 1945, will be the most abnormal period the University has experienced in many decades, for it marks the transition from a three-term, round-the-year calendar back to a pre-war system...