Word: round
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the results in, there was much clucking about the underrepresentation in the new Assembly of the Communists (ten seats) compared with the 188 for the new Gaullist Union for the New Republic, when both parties in the first round polled about the same number of votes. Yet the Communists (who in the old days gained unfairly through proportional representation) had in fact suffered a drop of more than 1,500,000 votes-possibly the most important manifestation of the election...
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David Stone as Wilfred Shadbolt the jailer makes a splendid clod, and John Scullin (a good-sing-no-act tenor), Alison Keith, Judith Spritzer, and the rest rally round successfully in other capacities...
...more spectacular private life: his present wife is his fourth; his third was tempestuous Fleur Cowles, editor of the avant-gaudy monthly Flair, which failed after twelve issues in 1951. But with identical backgrounds (Exeter, Harvard, Des Moines city rooms), the two brothers think alike. They even look alike: round spectacles and round eyes seemingly wide with perpetual surprise...
Bynum, who was voted the best speaker in the competition, and Ferren went undefeated in five preliminary rounds before winning a unanimous decision from Dartmouth in the final round. The debate topic for the tournament, one of the largest in the New England area, was "Resolved: That the future development of nuclear weapons shoull be prohibited by international agreement...