Word: round
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Significantly, party whips had to go all out to round up support for Schmidt on the censure vote that was brought by the opposition on a legal technicality. (The constitutional court ruled that Schmidt, while Finance Minister in 1973, had exceeded his authority by spending beyond the budget without parliamentary approval...
Foreign travel is more popular than ever, thanks mainly to the new low charter fares that offer round-trip flights to London for as little as $350. Passport applications are up 15%. Vacations this year cost 5% to 10% more than last year, but with the economy stronger, inflation at a compound annual rate of 7.4% and unemployment easing to 6.9%, Americans seem more comfortable about indulging themselves...
Freddie Laker's Laker Airways, which plans to offer $236 round-trip tickets between New York City and London (TIME, June 27), will become the second scheduled British carrier on that run. Either Laker or British Caledonian, another privately owned carrier, will gain a route between Los Angeles and London. In addition, British airliners will be allowed to fly into Houston and Seattle and, after three years, into Atlanta and Dallas-Fort Worth...
Darwin wrote of that epic round: "The clearest picture that remains to me is of the youthful hero playing all those last crucial shots, just as if he had been playing an ordinary game. He did not hurry; he did not linger: there was a briskness and decisiveness about every movement, and whatever he may have felt, he did not betray it by as much as the movement of an eyelash. Yet he did not play as one in a dream, as people sometimes do at supreme crises: he was just entirely calm and entirely natural...
...played at Cherry Hill, where Palmer will try to recapture the brilliance of that June Sunday in 1960 when he won his lone Open there by making up seven shots to pass 14 other players Anyone who saw Palmer in his moment of glory remembers that final evanescent round just as an earlier generation remembers Francis Ouimet's final round. From now on, the courageous final round of Hubert Green will be remembered...