Word: round
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more advanced students of Lifemanship, Potter offers the Question Gambit and the "What a Pity" Probe, but for all-round utility, he recommends "plonking." Writes Potter: "If you have nothing to say-or, rather, something extremely stupid and obvious-say it, but in a plonking tone of voice-that is, roundly, wisely, and dogmatically; or take up and repeat with slight variation, in this tone of voice, the last phrase of the speaker." Thus...
More cautious opinion held that the Russians had merely lost the round in Berlin. There seemed little doubt that they would fight, in the impending Foreign Ministers' conference, for an all-German setup in which Russia would have some sort of veto. But the U.S. was ready for that (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), and Europe knew it. The Communists had no cause for vernal jubilation...
William Randolph Hearst turned 86. He stayed quietly in his home in Beverly Hills, while all five of his sons gathered round for the occasion...
...Gorman of the North Dakota National Guard re ported that he had had a dogfight with a flying saucer Over Fargo. He was heading for his airfield in his FSI at night when he saw a mysterious light "six to eigh inches in diameter, clear white and com pletely round with a sort of fuzz at the edges." Lieut. Gorman dived at the light the light dived at Gorman. Round & round they went for 27 minutes. Then the light put on speed and tore out of sight on a northwest-north heading...
...time John F. Kopczynski graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology ten years ago, he was thinking seriously about wheels. Why, he asked himself, should they always be round? Maybe oval wheels would do some jobs better. Last week, Kopczynski (now 31 and president of Buffalo's Pivot Punch and Die Corp.) displayed a set of something he calls "Walk Wheels." They are oval in shape and can flip-flop through mud or sand that would founder conventional round wheels...