Word: round
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American officialdom, inured to the cold, classic ploys of bureaucracy, the 1956 wave of huddled masses was a strange but warming experience. In Vienna, the U.S. Consulate staff processed the stream of Hungarians round the clock; even Pennsylvania's Democrat Francis Walter, co-author of the restrictive McCarran-Walter Immigration Act, returned from an inspection trip along the Austro-Hungarian border (where he saw a rebel shot down) to demand that the U.S. quota of arriving refugees be raised from 5,000 to 17,000. The Army reached fast, far and wide to find GIs of Hungarian descent...
...bigger, more powerful infantry weapon is known as the Armalite (for "light armament"). Firing a .308-cal. round, it has the hitting power and range of the Springfield T 44 and the Belgian F.N. but weighs only 6.8 pounds because it is made of lightweight aluminum alloy and plastics, is so soundly constructed that it sacrifices neither accuracy nor sturdiness. Unlike almost any other rifle, the fully automatic Armalite can be manufactured on an assembly-line basis; it discards the traditional drilled steel barrel for a barrel liner made of stainless steel tubing, and swaged, i.e., forced by machine, into...
...them. Amidst a welter of prayers, supplications, pageants and credos, nothing occurs resembling a human relationship. Similarly, the score, composed when Verdi was 30, sounds like a not very funny satire of Verdian music that put listeners in mind of the gaudy decorations on an old merry-go-round...
...long, sleepless watches of the night A gentle face - the face of one dead Looks at me from the wall, where round its head The night-lamp casts a halo of pale light. Here in this room she died; and soul more white Never through martyrdom of fire was led To its repose...
...Russian bottle of Vodka. It seemed that early in the competition, when the Russian team thought the Canadians would give them the most trouble, Cleary became friendly with an English-speaking Russian student who promised him a bottle of Vodka if the U.S. knocked off Canada in the second round...