Word: round
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cattle. They sat on the glassed-in sun porch discussing the famous battle. Then Eisenhower took Churchill hedgehopping in the helicopter along Lee's line of advance down the Cashtown Road, along the left flank of Pickett's charge, down the Union position from Cemetery Hill to Round Top. Churchill, old Civil War buff, discussed divisions and division commanders with sure style...
...with such sweeping considerations, but with a finicky attention to details, did the foreign ministers assemble in Geneva. They disputed about what shape the conference table should be. Russia wanted a round one; the West held out for a square table, whose four-sidedness, reasoned Western tacticians, would emphasize that the talks concerned the four occupiers of Berlin. The Westerners had anticipated a Soviet demand for inclusion of Polish and Czechoslovak delegations, to "even up sides...
...Armstrong commanded the artillery battery which fired the first atomic round. At the Nevada proving grounds, he had men from the Artillery School and numerous civilian scientists under his command...
...Gallwey will be at number two for the varsity, facing Tom Freiberg, a winner over Weld a year ago. Bob Bowditch will meet yale captain Jon Clark at number three, while Fred Vin- ton, Jorge Lemann and Bill Wood round ou the Crimson top six. Their opponents will be Chris Scott, Sandy Wiener, and Rick Wallace, respectively...
...strong, ungrammatical, and a ferocious eater." Son Ronald was an all-state basketball player in high school and a Big Ten star at Ohio State. Daughter Brenda is beautiful, plays crack tennis and goes to Radcliffe. Her suitor, Neil Klugman, tells of his summer affair with Brenda-a daytime round of basketball, pingpong, mile runs, swimming races, and a nighttime series of assignations with Brenda. The affair ends badly for everyone, with Brenda ravished, her mother prostrated, her brother a musclebound failure in business, and her father writing gamely: "You have to have faith in your children like...