Word: round
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seemed to have learned even to joke about her ordeal. She opened a bulky ski parka to show a T shirt bearing the words PARDON ME. She pointed to a large round pendant hung around her neck with the inscription SURVIVOR, 2-4-74, the date she was dragged screaming from her apartment by the S.L.A. "Now I'll get the other date on at the bottom," she vowed. "Today's date...
Raney, a 5-ft. 8-in. freshman guard/forward with a 4.2 points per game average, led the Harvard woman's basketball team to a 66-38 victory over Brown in the first round of the Ivy League Championship Tournament yesterday in New Haven, Conn...
...natives are attributable not to one local boy but to history. The outspoken Carters may have speeded ventilation; but the bleeding holes in the oldest foundations are the same holes rammed everywhere in America by swelling population, the spread of wealth, racial change, and an active central Government. Round every hole, the citizens of Plains see what we all see-the quick dissolution of ancient ties of blood, faith and money: the primal mortar of society...
...which naked hardwoods are swallowed in tall pines black in winter green; slow wheeling buzzards, hawks stalled above like statues of hawks, long crepe ribbons of starlings drifting south. The fact that crucial landmarks from the formative years of a man of present immense world power are spaced round at intervals with no signposts may come to seem trivial in the uninsistent grandeur of the place itself, the inhuman place...
...like a rolling penny heading for a sewer grate. Cutter has had his staff calculate some other reminders: a million dollars' worth of quarters stands almost as high as Mount Everest; the number of stacked quarters in this year's budget would extend as far as five round trips to the moon. In dollar bills, the Carter budget would weigh 531,600 tons...