Word: round
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plan to go to Scandinavia-166,000 to Russia-237,000 to the Mediterranean. And when we sat down to figure out the total mileage of your travel hopes we ended up with all these zeros -0,000,000,000-preceded by a six. (That equals 133,490 round trips to the moon...
...William H. Seward minted a round, shiny phrase. He described the difference between Northern wage labor and Southern slave labor as an "irrepressible conflict." Later, Seward's friends explained that he had not meant that war was inevitable, much" less that it was desirable. Abraham Lincoln profoundly believed that war was undesirable, and hoped that it was avoidable, when he came into the Presidency and put Seward in his Cabinet. But Seward's phrase had caught on. Hotheads on both sides used it. By the time the shooting started, civil war was indeed "irrepressible...
Some readers may balk at Adams' often gawky, round about sentences, his fondness for such words as "ilk" and "ichor." But they will be grateful to him for having followed with vigorous impartiality the twists and turns of a morbidly fascinating, often tragi-comic life...
Allied Victory. If U.S. forces have come a long way in two years, so have their Allies in the war against Japan-Australians, New Zealanders and men from the United Kingdom, half way round the world. The Royal Navy has, in its Pacific Fleet under Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser, a force sufficient to take on the entire surviving Japanese fleet and destroy...
...from her kitchen window, Helen heard a spirited commentary from dozens of Aleut women, who had assembled on the square below. "Is funny pants," shouted one when Husband Thornie's pajamas appeared. "What is?" When Helen's blue net dressing gown sailed out, it drew a tremendous round of applause. "Is pretty!" shouted the gallery. "To dance...