Word: round
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Romney rode forth to battle, astride his trusty Rambler to engage what he considered the modern U.S. dragon: the dinosaur-like big car. For a while, Detroit regarded him as a mere windmill tilter. But as Romney began to smite the dinosaur hip and thigh, TIME chronicled his success round by round, carefully reported the rise of the small car in the U.S. Finally, the Big Three have had to pay Romney the sincerest form of flattery by bringing out their own compact cars. For the story of Bible-quoting George Romney's amazing rise-and what will happen...
...into a rectangle, and the Edwardian buildings now surrounding it will be replaced by boxlike modern structures on which advertising signs will be part of the design, instead of being grafted on, as at present. The famed center statue of Eros, god of love, which makes the traffic go round, will still be there but no longer the center of things. Sentimentalists wonder whether the new, streamlined circus will still appeal to London's lonely lads and lasses (including streetwalkers) as a rendezvous...
...champion started well, nicked jabs that confused Moore, won four of the first five rounds. But in the sixth he walked into a staggering left-right combination. The champion began to bleed around the eyes. As early as the ninth round, he was beaten. His seconds asked politely if he was giving any thought to "retiring." Gamely the Kid rejected the idea, pawed the blood from his eyes for four more rounds. Finally, after the 13th, he retired, explained simply: "I just couldn't see." Manager Biddles' tune had changed in a year's time. "I wouldn...
Richard Boone (6 ft. 2 in., 200 lbs., 44-34-38) is perhaps the only television gunslicker who is worth his whisky as an all-round actor (he is currently playing Lincoln in the Broadway production of The Rivalry). The name of his TV character, Paladin, is meant to suggest a knight errant. But the hero of Have Gun, Witt Travel is actually just a hard-boiled egghead, western style, who spouts Shakespeare while the lead flies, smokes 58? cigars, advises the public to "try marinating venison in whisky." He is a private eye in peewees, and though he always...
...Superficial Scholars. Any student who has gone through the high-school and college round of intelligence, aptitude and achievement tests has seen exam sections just as ambiguous. In an unpublished sequel to his American Scholar article, Hoffmann analyzes eleven more College Board sample questions-5% of the total in two booklets-and is able to show that they are, at least, highly arguable. Probably no brilliant student will be denied college entrance because he analyzes such questions too keenly, because passing scores are relatively low. But screening in the early stages of the National Merit Scholarship competitions is highly selective...