Word: round
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...late afternoon Jerry Ford came back strong. He held a "Cabinet meeting," one of the most unusual exercises by a former President yet recorded. Some of the old boys from the Ford team trooped into the board room of the American Enterprise Institute on 17th Street and gathered round the chief just the way they used to do it in the real Cabinet Room. There was a little more laughter this time, but then Ford called them to order and asked them, one at a time, for a thumbnail report on the state of the world in the areas they...
...with some lapses, has supported since World War II. But the Europeans, as well as the Japanese, have been chipping away at that principle steadily-for example, by setting up deals that guarantee commodity prices for a number of developing countries. This bodes ill for the so-called Tokyo Round of international trade talks under way in Geneva, originally intended to be another breakthrough, like the Kennedy Round of the 1960s, in the elimination of trade barriers. But as the talks proceed, the world appears to be heading in a different direction...
...1930s Wright embraced the interracial promise of the Communist Party. With "eyes as round and open and wet as morning-glories," he made the first real emotional commitment of his life. But it was not, as they say, a two-way street. The party was interested in him only insofar as it could use him. He was promptly elected executive secretary of his unit because the faction supporting him figured that the opposition would not dare vote against a bona fide Negro...
...grinder, with the hand gripped sweatily around the handle turning away for dear life, or death. The hand is turning and the grinder is grinding and somewhere in between there's the owner of the hand, who is quickly turning himself into so much ground round. And over in the corner there's the suave detective, with a little moustache and a twenty-below-zero stare watching perfunctorily. Looking at the owner a weasily guy who is paying to attention to the grinder, the detective rattles in his just-the-facts-ma'am-I've-got-to-finish-my-report...
Later that fall, when he cruised into his room in Weld, he realized just how wrong he had been. For there was Todd, Skinny, shorthaired, with tortoise-shell glasses framing large, uneasy eyes. Uneasy is maybe the best way to describe Todd, all round. He was uncomfortable everywhere: in the room, in classes, at meals. He tended to make everyone else a little uneasy, too; although he was basically retiring, he was the kind of person whom you can't just ignore when hou're trying to have a good time...