Word: round
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...troops poured over the Rhine by the thousands-in boats, over bridges, through the air. Now even the most professionally pessimistic observers had to admit that the final round was on. The roads to Berlin had opened...
...Woolton got Britons to tighten their belts and live with the notches permanently drawn in. To the Bill and Lizzie Smiths across the length & breadth of the British Isles the name Woolton stood for honest control without favoritism, or, in his own Lancashire idiom, for "a fair do all round...
...TIME correspondent returned from a round-the-country tour of German P.W. camps last week with answers to the first two questions. The third question no one could yet answer. This was his report...
...Free World, also prophesied a black future for Germans in general, for German writers in particular: "To be a German author -what will that be? Back of every sentence ... in our language stands a broken . . . burnt-out people, bewildered about itself and its history . . . the fearful accumulation of hatred round about will not permit it to emerge from its boundaries-a people that can never show its face again...
Last week the latest guesser, John Lee Coulter (longtime tariff expert representing the conservative Committee of Americans), declared that he would be satisfied with a yearly national income of $110,000,000,000, and a good round job figure of 55,000,000. (The President has insisted on 60,000,000 postwar jobs...