Word: round
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Leverett and Kirkland football teams will fight it out for the House championship tomorrow, after both posted wins in yesterday's opening round of the playoffs...
...FINAL ROUND STATS...
When they go up the banistered staircase to the second-floor library with its old books, dark red walls and white trim, the men in the diplomatic delegations take their coats off and settle elbow to elbow at a small round table. They are mindful that Andrew Jackson and later Abraham Lincoln used to sit in that room and debate American affairs with their hosts...
...express finally chugged into its Zambian terminal eleven hours late. We were lucky at that. Freight trains normally require 20 days or more to make the round trip, owing to equipment failures, crashes, derailments and endemic small-scale pilfering. About 30% of the 2,100 freight cars, and up to a third of the locomotives, are out of commission at a time...
...attention at all. His retiring manner earned him the nickname "the taupe" (the mole) from Lytton Strachey. Writing his mother about a projected meeting with Henry James, the young author was comically unassuming: "I hear he likes people to be handsome and well dressed, so I shall fail all round." He even construed his repressions as an example of good manners: "However gross my desires, I find I shall never satisfy them for the fear of annoying others...