Word: round
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bells of Defiance. Triggering the last brutal round was a crudely mimeographed manifesto calling for a general strike. The strike showed sinews of strength from the start. The morning before the deadline, grocery stores were crowded by foresighted housewives laying in supplies; knots of grim-faced workers idled on street corners. Half an hour before strike time, steel shutters slammed down on store fronts, and the usual bumper-to-bumper downtown traffic dwindled away to eerie emptiness. Then, from steeple after steeple, bells clanged out the Roman Catholic Church's defiance of the dictator and the signal...
...even against such competition, Pettit's spectacular play put him in a class apart, just as it has all through this most impressive of his four pro seasons. Because of Pettit's basket-stuffing and superb all-round game, the St. Louis Hawks have a long lead in the Western Division of the N.B.A...
...Breezing home by 4½ lengths, Travis M. Kerr's bay colt Round Table easily won the $156,990 Santa Anita Maturity. At Florida's Hialeah, 1957 Kentucky Derby Winner Iron Liege lugged 124 Ibs., and, even with Hotshot Willie Hartack up, finished second to Happy Hill Farm's Kingmaker, carrying 116 Ibs., in the $30,-650 Royal Palm Handicap...
...more than 30% as the market broadened and the quality of chickens improved. In 1947 the U.S. per capita consumption of chicken was 18.1 Ibs.; last year it was 25.3 Ibs. Success in broilers encouraged turkey breeders to try contract farming. Originally a holiday bird, turkeys are now year-round fare; production is up, and as prices dropped, per capita consumption almost doubled...
...Francisco's Ken Venturi tucked away the $15,000 Thunderbird Invitational golf tournament in easy fashion at Palm Beach yesterday, shooting his fourth sub-par round and turning back fourth sub-par round...