Word: round
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ultimately two free throws by rejuvenated guard Kevin Stacom with 1:31 left in overtime gave the Celts the breathing room needed for the victory. After a Kareen Abdul-Jabbar dunk with five seconds remaining, Sidney Wicks hit two foul shots to round out the final score...
...tough night for Laurie Downey, who faced a stiff challange in her specialty--the breaststroke--from Wildcat Debbie Panzik. A judge's decision gave Downey the opening round in the 100-yd. backstroke but Panzik took the return matchup in the 200-yd. backstroke. But Downey also added firsts in the two relays...
...that the Secretary of the Treasury does not savor luxury. He likes Cardin belts, monogrammed shirts and $500 Dunhill suits, but on his round shoulders they just flop and hang. He also has a taste for $1.25 Jamaican Dunhill cigars, of which he burns up five to seven a day. Whenever he does not have an official dinner, he likes to slip out to a small and modest Italian restaurant, where he is seldom recognized. When it is on the menu, he orders steak tartare, which he tosses and stirs with great panache...
...master's degrees and a Ph.D. in economics, taught for a while but switched to the more exciting world of business, joining a subsidiary of Crown Cork & Seal, where he quickly climbed to vice president and director. In 1963, he was named the U.S. ambassador to the Kennedy Round of international trade talks in Geneva. There he proved to be a tough negotiator, showing qualities that still linger. Says a Treasury aide: "I've never seen a guy who can get you on the defensive so easily. He's the master of oneupmanship. He always gets...
...silent beauty of a flower surpasses them all. Among beautiful women there are said to be silent beautiful women, but none can compare with the silent flower." Sofu (the name means Blue Wind) is revered for such views in a land where a beautiful blossom is a benison. Round, gnome-like Teshigahara, 77, is Japan's most innovative and successful master of the ancient art of ikebana, which bears about the same relationship to flower arranging as usually practiced in the West as Rachmaninoff to country rock. Within that art, Sofu is commonly referred to as "the Picasso...