Word: round
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wage boost and price rise in steel in February 1946 took the last brakes off the postwar spiral of inflation. Last week, out of a clear sky with an apparently unlimited ceiling, U.S. Steel flatly rejected another round of wage demands-the third since 1946-and proclaimed instead a price cut (see BUSINESS...
Across the U.S., on the same day, some 300 other dogged interviewers were asking the same questions of 3,000 other more or Iess well-informed U.S. citizens. Should the U.S. have daylight-saving time all year round? Should Harry Truman and Joseph Stalin sit down together and talk things over? How is Harry Truman doing his job? Which Republican would you like to see President...
...American women," said he, "are wonderful-long in legs, not much in rear or breasts, but marvelously small in waist. The arm just aches to curve around." The female Mexican form is fine too, but different: "Short, luscious, round, delicate." Clothing it in "dresses designed for tall, slim and fair women ... is as becoming as a pair of pistols on the Holy Christ...
...ranking twenty-sixth in the country and Steiner Junior doubles champ and singles runner-up. Savitt made fast work of Ted Backe in two quick, lopsided sets, Steve Pratt, who jumped from three to two court in inter-team competition last week, gave Steiner more trouble, taking the first round, and losing the next two by close scores...
...play, that of the Lord High Executioner. Darrell Fancourt, as the humane Mikado of the story, leers competently at his unfortunate subjects and utters the most grotesque chuckles that have been heard in Boston since he was last here nine years ago. The romantic leads are taken by Thomas Round and Margaret Mitchell, both of whom have pleasant voices as well as a lingering consciousness of the foolishness of the whole business...