Word: round
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...King Arthur a gentleman, or was he a sort of Legs Diamond of the early Middle Ages? Was it the age of chivalry or the age of the shiv? Were the "parfit gentil knights" of the Round Table just a passel of paleo-Stalinist thugs? Henry Treece, English poet, critic and historical novelist (The Dark Island), wields a mean historic mace and it lands squarely on the romantic Arthurian legend of Sir Thomas Malory's Morte d'Arthur. "Malory was wrong," says Novelist Treece flatly. He admits that his own hard-boiled debunking may be no less wrong...
John Bricker and his supporters prepared their arguments for presentation to the Senate. Hennings and other Bricker opponents readied themselves for concentrated study of the new proposal. One of the basic constitutional debates of this century was ready for its 1956 round...
...trap, but a hectic trip through his country reminded him of another. Crossing the River Jordan, the King was almost hysterically received by his ex-Palestinian subjects. Throngs of refugees, who have been waiting ever since the 1949 armistice for a new war to regain their lost possessions, crowded round...
...Dubrovin. During an orgy at his estate, Prince Michael has exposed Agent Caroline. In fact, he has left her without a stitch of covering above the waist. The air is filled with shrieks, screams and wolfish roars as the Russian nobility, ever lovers of traditional customs, pursue nude serfs round and round the banquet hall. But Caroline is resolved at least to keep her head. As Prince Michael bears down upon her, his "greedy and sarcastic gaze" inflamed with "voluptuous contempt," Caroline puts a torch to the hangings. Gusts of fire sweep the room. Amid shouts, pistol shots and clouds...
Defending champion San Francisco, Iowa, Southern Methodist, and Temple moved into the semi-final round of the NCAA Basketball Tournament. The Dons defeated a tough Utah team 92-77 for its 53rd straight victory. SMU eliminated Oklahoma City, 84-63, while Iowa jolted Kentucky 89-77. In the other quarter-final game, Temple edged Canisius...