Word: round
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Then he found himself on an expressway covered with what seemed like "a million cars. By the time I reached Simon's home, he couldn't do the interview," says McCarroll. "I apologized profusely, blamed the traffic and apologized some more." Simon rescheduled the interview, but McCarroll's useless round trip, which should have taken four hours, consumed more than seven...
...some ways, the strike scene was sadly familiar. Only four months ago, during a round of nationwide walkouts by 20,000 workers, Walesa led a shutdown at the Lenin shipyard. After a nine-day sit-in, the workers accepted a demoralizing surrender. This time, though, the core of worker protest lay with the nation's 450,000 coal miners in Silesia. They are the prime motor of Poland's tottering economy, firing its aging industrial plant and providing $1 billion in precious hard-currency exports...
Golf is considered a boon to both physical and mental health, though almost no one ever looks or feels better after a round. While intended to be a display of self-control, fundamentally it reveals temper. Implied in the $ game's sociability are honor, forthrightness, friendship, kindness, courtesy, generosity and understanding. But nearly nowhere are frailties of character laid barer than on a golf course. After 18 holes with a stranger, you know him. And golfers are as prone as the police to develop fatalistic cynicisms about their fellow...
...booze, womanizing and raunchy songs. Bush, describing the book to me, singled out this aspect of it as extraordinarily accurate -- "the experience in the bars, and the experience in the singing, and the experience of his ((Hynes')) macho guy." But I relayed Hynes' difficulty in imagining George Bush singing round after round of The Fing Great Wheel. Bush is amazed that this image should amaze people: "I do sing it -- I did sing it. And how I correct public misperceptions I don't know, and I really don't think I've got time to try. But, you know...
...Academy. In a pompous book entirely devoted to sports there, it is noted, "Poppy Bush's play throughout the season ranked him as one of Andover's all-time soccer greats." In the 1942 class poll, he ranked among the top four students in six different categories: Best All-Round Fellow, Best Athlete, Most Respected, Most Popular, Handsomest, and Most Faculty Drag. (This last, in recognition of faculty popularity, because Bush was so gladly submissive to the ordeals of sarcasm that a student with poor grades was expected to put up with...