Word: round
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...through the opening session of the 21st Communist Party Congress, the January sun broke through Moscow's leaden overcast. Bright rays streamed through the four-story windows of the Great Kremlin Hall and lit up the towering, 20-ft. statue of Lenin behind the platform and the short, round, balding figure at the speaker's stand below. "See!" cried Nikita Khrushchev, a talented ad-libber, thrusting aside his 46,000-word text. "Even the sun favors us. Nature smiles on the seven-year plan...
...absent Mao, China's Premier Chou En-lai attacked Yugoslavia and the U.S. in terms far more bitter than Khrushchev's, and defended China's people's communes as "the best form for developing socialism under Chinese conditions." At the close, Khrushchev threw his arms round the speaker and, according to an old Russian custom, kissed him three times. It was, said a Soviet reporter, "as if not just two men but two great brotherly people had embraced." But Chou himself was forced to render tribute to Khrushchev for his "correct leadership" as a party theorist...
...seven watertight compartments; she carried the most modern instrumentation, from radar to gyro, from Decca Navigator to radio-equipped life rafts. Her veteran captain, P. L. Rasmussen, 58, declared: "This ship means a revolution in Arctic navigation." Boasted a government official: "Now we can sail to Greenland all year round...
...After screening 40 football coaches for the job vacated by retiring Earl Blaik. Army went to its own practice field for his successor: Dale Hall. 34, for the past three seasons defensive backfield coach under Blaik. Hall, whose bespectacled, scholarly look belies his record as an all-round athlete, was an all-American basketball player at West Point, played halfback on Army teams of the Blanchard-Davis era, resigned his infantry commission to take up coaching...
...Tripp had delusions: he thought the marathon was over, but that the investigators were playing a game with him to keep it running. At one point he imagined he was broadcasting from another building miles away. These changes in mental functioning reminded psychiatrists of breakdowns under sleep deprivation and round-the-clock questioning in Iron Curtain countries. To psychologists thinking of spaceships, his crackup on the lighted-panel tests were a significant warning...