Word: round
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...response to the appeal, the PBH General Hospitals Committee will attempt to recruit "about 100" students to work round the clock in five hour shifts. The Committee hopes to put about four or five volunteers on each shift. The present members of the PBH Hospitals Committee will form the core of the group, but more students and wives of faculty members will be needed to fill the required quota...
...headmasters habitually underlined the prerogatives of birth by addressing the sons of commoners as "my child," the sons of peers as "my dear child," and young peers in their own right as "my darling child." As for the young Duke and heir to the throne, the word has gone round to all his 92 young schoolmates to call him plain "Charles...
...classes, busy Bobby found time to get married at only 16, a hasty marriage that still managed to survive for a year and a half. He was only a bit more successful at his studies. But he was a three-letter man (football, basketball and track), the finest all-round athlete in Walla Walla's history, and a cinch for any number of athletic scholarships...
...Sugar Ray Robinson, 37, four-time middleweight champion of the world, earned close to $500,000 for 15 rounds of fist fighting in which he showed an admirable capacity for absorbing punishment and a furious skill at dishing it out. Round after round, Challenger Carmen Basilio, 30, plodded in to belt his man from heart to haircut, and Robinson fired back with deadly effect. Basilio's head bobbed like a light punching bag at the end of Robinson's jackhammer jab. He started the fight sullen with 5 o'clock shadow; he finished looking like...
...field commander's shoulder 900 miles away. They shared the view with millions who, between the humdrum of quiz shows and soap operas, watched the paratroopers effect the historic entry of nine Negro students into the Little Rock school. Viewers also saw the troops double-timing to round up sullen riffraff, heard white students uttering words of hatred-and tolerance. TV news directors broke into network programs at will that day, eleven times on CBS, eight on NBC, for spots averaging four minutes each (and losing each network two commercials). ABC also aired an on-the-spot pickup late...