Word: round
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...just after 9 o'clock one morning last week when President Eisenhower entered the Cabinet Room to open the conferences with congressional leaders on his programs for 1958. The 31 conferees got to their feet and gave him a round of applause. After taking his place in his big, straight-backed, black leather Cabinet chair, he explained that he felt well, but was conscious of speaking more slowly after his stroke (no one in the room could detect it) and would therefore talk less than usual. During the rest of the sessions he frequently came and went, leaving Vice...
...First Step. Shaken by Eisenhower's most recent illness, worried by signs of uncertainty and discord among the members, doomsayers were already talking glumly of Paris as a great opportunity lost. In fact, the 15 chiefs of government who will gather round the table in NATO's conference hall next week are most unlikely to create any new political institutions that would set NATO on the road to supranational power. But the summit conference will almost certainly produce a pledge of closer political collaboration; if meticulously honored, it could create a state of mind that would rule...
...follow the U.S. lead, but will place more emphasis on the need for member nations to subordinate their individual foreign policies to NATO interests. The British will also press cautiously for steps toward a program of complete military interdependence under which member nations would cease trying to maintain all-round military forces. Thus Britain would like to concentrate more of its resources on antisubmarine defense, thinks France could better spend its money on plugging one of the many gaps in NATO's conventional defenses than on the wasteful French A-bomb program (TIME, Dec. 9). Britain also wants greater...
...second match, he met Charley Hanks. They both weighed about 135 pounds, but Hanks was two or three inches taller and had a much longer reach. Roosevelt was also nearsighted, which made it hard for him to see and parry Hanks' blows. "When time was called after the last round," one spectator recalls, "his face was dashed with blood and he was much winded; but his spirit did not flag, and if there had been another round, he would have gone into it with undiminished determination...
Gerry Emmet, Henry Cortesi and Pete Lund will round out the first five spots, while John Davis, Charlie Poletti, Ed Wadsworth and Fred Vinton open in the remaining places. Cortesi, Poletti and Vinton are veterans of last year's freshman team...