Word: round
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Round Robin. In Paris, Patrolman Jean Hennerie was fined $4 for careless driving while chasing down a motorist for careless driving...
...White House, President Truman conferred urgently with Secretary of State George Marshall and Defense Secretary James Forrestal. General Clay arrived and plunged into a round of top-level conferences at the Pentagon, on Capitol Hill, with the National Security Council at the White House...
...party's business. Where two or three were gathered together, that would be enough. This was a hoary Communist device, designed to give the leftists solid control of the party. The rules were gaveled through by Convention Chairman Albert Fitzgerald, president of the United Electric Workers, and round-faced puppet of the U.E.W.'s real bosses, Communist-line Julius Emspak and James Matles...
Measuring with the Feet. Grim was the only word for the two-day meeting round the green-clothed, rectangular table in Room No. 49 of the Dutch Foreign Office. Britain's Ernest Bevin was unsmiling and the nervous twitch at the right corner of his mouth was more pronounced than ever. France's Georges Bidault (about to lose his job, partly because he had lost popularity by going along with the U.S. on a program of German recovery) made his points tensely, striking the table with the edge of his hand. The Dutch host-chairman, Baron van Boetzelaer...
...Philadelphia last week, it would have been better for Beau had he obeyed the laws of physics and fallen down. In the sixth round, Champion Ike Williams (alias the Trenton Tiger) had him backed into a corner, a helpless hulk. Ike punched away until his arms grew weary, then lowered his gloves and looked at the referee as if to say: "Aren't you gonna stop it?' What was holding Beau up? None of the 12,952 spectators knew. Getting no help from the referee, Ike reluctantly went back to pounding his victim. When Referee Charley Daggert finally...