Word: round
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dogged quest for the meaning behind the meaning, the Washington press corps finds top-headline news where there is none. This happened at Secretary of State John Foster Dulles' press conference last week, and before the over-interpretation and overextension were through, the press-created fantasy had reverberated round the world...
...modern life fosters "fragmented man," who is willy-nilly his brother's keeper and very nearly his brother's nagger. Fragmented man is often a slave to his specialty, "yet no one of us set out to be a replaceable part in life . . . our youthful ambitions were round, like the world...
...Round Record. Last week, while the lackluster Lakers were losing three out of five games and sinking lower into third place in the four-team Western Division, Baylor still managed to stay fourth in league scoring, kept his average at 23.4 points a game. His scoring would be even higher if he did not pass so often when free to shoot-he ranked seventh in playmaking assists at last week's tally. In addition, he was third in rebounds...
...novels is simply and finally that of genteel young women gunning for husbands (she herself died a spinster at 41). Included inevitably in this world are harassed fathers and embattled moms, superfluous daughters and choosy suitors, haughty heiresses and dashing cads, all playing their parts in an endless round of dances, tea parties and chaperoned strolls, and doing their best never to cut a competitive throat without first casting a veil of perfect gentility over the operation...
...triumphant moments makes the mistake of calling the famous Maigret to goad him into action. Once the pipe-smoking, perpetually weary Maigret arrives on the scene, however, the ball-game is clearly over for the murderer. Using most of the slightly illegal police grilling methods, Maigret begins to round up suspects, one of whom, Annie Girardot, turns out to be the wife of a nervous gentleman who puts up a front as a successful young architect...