Word: round
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been warned about the addictive nature of the game. My father used to tell the story of a fellow who shows up at his home three hours late and drenched with sweat after his weekly round with the boys...
...analysts and pundits were quick to whip out their balance sheets and try to figure out who won this round of the superpower game. "Keeping Score" is how the Times called attention to two stories--one from Washington, one from Moscow--that tried to do just that. Of course, the usual suspects were rounded up and asked to comment. And, also of course, the usual right-wing kooks--some of whom unfortunately happen to hold Senate seats--were aghast...
...SPITE OF a new round of budget tightening and program cutting, the Congress this week approved funding for higher education programs at levels comparable to last year's appropriation. The move received over-whelming bipartisan support in both the House and the Senate and comes in response to pressure from a variety of groups and prominent educators--including Harvard President Derek C. Bok, who trekked to Washington twice last spring to lobby against cuts in student...
...cooks, however, the broth is delicious. From the opening, on- your-toes Harlem Scat, through the kick-up-your-heels flapper dance of The Hairdo Hop, past the wild jungle dance of Stix, round the sultry, smoky bend of A Blues for Two Women and back home to Harlem for the finale, Queenie Pie is unmistakably the work of the grand Duke. In the pit, the Duke Ellington Orchestra steps through the score's uptown opulence with high style, trumpets growling and keyboards swinging, while onstage, members of Director-Choreograp her Garth Fagan's Bucket Dance Theater juke and okeydoke...
...will not take the plunge just yet. Instead, he gave his supporters a year to round up 3 million signatures from voters who pledge that "they will pray, that they will work, that they will give toward my election." In a finale that no secular politician would risk, Robertson asked every member of the audience, live and remote, to give $100 on the spot. A check, cash or a credit-card number would...