Word: round
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...preparation for their opening regatta on April 28 with M.I.T. and Navy on the Charles, Coach Bert Haines's crewmen have been taking full advantage of sunny spring weather to round into top shape...
Monty exuded confidence. Said he : "The last round is going very well on both sides of the ring - and overhead. . . . Having crossed the Rhine we will crack about in the plains of northern Germany, chasing the enemy from pillar to post." Winston Churchill wanted to crack about with them. He crossed the Rhine, had a close call when a German shell burst only 50 yards away. For a life that was dear to Britain, he was persuaded to retreat...
...other airborne outfit, the Army decided to take a hot infantry division and convert it. The choice fell on the 82nd-once commanded by Lieut. General Omar N. Bradley, then by his friend and deputy, Matt Ridgway. As Ridgway recalls it, his introduction to the airborne merry-go-round was brisk and informal. The War Department simply called him up and said: "Would you like to become airborne?" Said Ridgway, no hater of change or challenge...
...wonderful kitchen ("Costs no more than a good six-room house") are a 105-mm. twin-spout faucet, jutting formidably from a revolving turret in the center of the kitchen; and a glistening floor which is at once a swimming pool, ice rink, washing machine, merry-go-round and giant strainer. (Schaible's chief products: faucets and strainers.) Other wonders...
...that direction," the Cat said, waving its right paw round, "lives a Hatter: and in that direction," waving the other paw, "'lives a March Hare. Visit either you like: they're both...