Word: round
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...infield, the Reds have a slight edge. Chris Chambliss, who missed his calling in pro football, batted about .290 this year and had nearly 20 homers. Tony Perez, for the Reds, batted in the .260 range but with about five more round trippers than Chambliss...
...doubt you begin to get the drift. It's all right, you know--there are lots of good movies this weekend. Who knows? Maybe next week something really exiciting will show up, like a demonstration pretesting the general belief that the earth is round...
...College, which will graduate its first class next year, attracts applicants because of its apprenticeship program in public-interest law. Last year 60% of its first-year students passed the baby bar exam. Getting a job, however, is another matter. In 1975 there were 34,000 law school graduates round the country looking for work-and only 26,000 jobs...
Though the California boom is exceptional, signs of revival in the recession-battered housing industry are cropping up elsewhere round the country. In August, housing starts were running at an annual rate of 1.5 million, up 11% from July. That is a marked improvement over a low of 880,000 starts registered in December 1974-but still well below the peak rate of almost 2.7 million posted in February...
...stood only to get a cold shoulder. Despite the Ford Administration's original vow to vaccinate 200 million Americans against the dread virus-a form of which possibly caused some half-million deaths in the U.S. alone during the 1918-19 influenza pandemic-only a few health centers round the country were ready to give the shots. Indeed, federal distribution of the vaccine was so erratic that a health official in Portland, Ore., remarked: "We didn't even know we'd received a batch until we read about it in the newspaper...