Word: round
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...self-consciously behind potted palms and azaleas in the hotel lobbies, and giving their identities away with their long Russian cigarets. Some of them, arriving without proper headgear, visited a store and bought felt hats. The clerks carefully creased the hats. The Russians as carefully uncreased them, restoring the round newness of hats on a shelf...
...advised San Francisco conferees to renounce power politics for "the religion of unselfish love. God help us if we reach a stage in which our plumbing is perfect but in which the human soul atrophies." Colonel Robert S. Allen, onetime co-columnist with Drew Pearson (Washing ton Merry-Go-Round), lost his lower right arm by amputation after being wounded in Germany, captured, freed three days later by advancing...
...people 998 times in his 146 months of office. Now 348 corre spondents were packed in a fat half-moon around Harry Truman's big desk - the biggest press conference the White House had ever seen. The President rose (he stood throughout the conference), smiled tightly behind his round, gold-rimmed glasses, asked: "Is everybody in? . . ." Then, in quick, clipped sentences he hammered out the news...
Making of an Editor. As an editor, Van paid little attention to the news and circulation departments, concentrated on editorials. Pictures of that era show him a young, round-faced man with heavy, horn-rimmed glasses, sitting by his desk and typewriter, where he pounded out editorials, single-spaced and with almost no margin. He was always smoking a cigar, and he threw the butts behind the radiator...
Bottoms & Tempers. For weeks the talks went round & round. At long sessions in the Kremlin's uncomfortable wooden chairs, diplomatic bottoms were as sorely tried as diplomatic tempers. But there was no explosion. Clark Kerr and Harriman simply reported home. Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt turned on the heat...