Word: round
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crimson, the loss was doubly frustrating. Undefeated and seeded first in its class at the Royal Regatta, it had thrown off a virus attack to win its first round race on Wednesday. Then, at full strength, it had demolished the Norwegian Norske Students by three lengths a day later. By Friday morning, American newspapers were eagerly awaiting a duel between Harvard and either the MIT lightweights or the Penn freshman heavies, both of whom had advanced easily, in the finals Saturday afternoon...
...save hardened English rowing enthusiasts, had paid attention to Leander even though it had taken the Thames Cup with relative ease last July. It was a mistake both Harvard and Penn were to discover later. The Britishers had quietly brushed off early-round competition and early Friday unceremoniously dumped the Isis Boat Club to gain the semifinals...
...restored village at Hancock, Mass., is currently the most fascinating of all the communities. In Tune, it opened its giant Round Stone Barn. Built in 1825, the barn was widely cited during the 1880s as "machinelike in its efficiency" and "a model for the soundest dairying practices." Settlers on the Great Plains dotted the Western frontier with timber versions of it-most of which have now rotted away. By the time the Hancock village was taken over by the Berkshires' Shaker Community, Inc. in 1960, huge cracks had appeared in the Shaker barn's walls and the interior...
That movement hit its high-water mark two years ago, when the Kennedy Round of world trade negotiations produced the deepest industrial tariff cuts ever made. Since then, protectionism has been staging a global comeback and has involved the U.S. in disputes with many nations. In Europe, a host of new nontariff barriers have partly offset the cuts in duties. Special taxes on imports last year helped West Germany to record a surplus in trade with the U.S. for the first time...
...veteran U.S. businessman in Japan explained with annoyance: "They said one day, 'Now you can make radios.' But when you read the fine print, it turned out that you couldn't bring in parts. You couldn't even make a crystal set. Then another round of liberalization came and, by God, now you can bring in parts-for a crystal...