Word: round
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During intermission, the bearded Canadian almost drowned the show when he served so many drinks to cast and audience that the entire second act played as if the hall were built around an imperial quart. Afterward, Perky offered a farewell round of cheer, announced that he had seen the production for the last time and was content. But when the house lights went dark the following night, there -glistening in the ninth row center-was a familiar white goatee...
...Blows (French). The story of a small boy's flight from the soiled, loveless world of his parents adds up to a moving metaphor for all humanity trapped in the relentless round of daily life...
...moment, all the plane fights and the round-table concurrences had that curiously unreal air of things desired but not yet accepted as urgent. Yet Dillon's trip, said the Economist, "could just conceivably be the exploratory prelude to the most important development in international economics since General Marshall launched his plan of 1947 on that flood tide in Atlantic affairs that has so spectacularly led on to fortune . . . Now everything suggests that a new tide is racing which could determine whether the decade and a half from 1960 to 1975 will repeat the last 15 years of success...
...ring until he left it, by 13 had won 17 amateur fights, at 16 turned professional, at 19 won the world's featherweight championship, lost it seven months later but won the world's lightweight title in 1930 by knocking out his opponent in the first round; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...Blows (French). The story of a small boy's flight from the soiled, loveless world of his parents is a moving metaphor for all humanity trapped in the relentless round of daily life...