Word: rounder
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...prolate spheroid used in rugby is rounder than a football and therefore easier to kick, but more difficult to throw. The rugby match consists of two 35-minute periods of continuous play separated by a five-minute half-time break after which the teams change goals...
Louisville gave Cassius a welcoming parade that "crippled the town." He bought a "rosy pink" hardtop Cadillac on time. And he signed to fight his first professional bout-a six-rounder with a former smalltown West Virginia police chief named Tunney Hunsaker. "He's a bum," confided Cassius. "I'll lick him easy." But he still got up at 5 a.m. every day to run at least two miles in Chickasaw Park, and he boxed a few fast training rounds with his younger brother Rudolph...
...still too tired to ride herd on the boy, and Scott cut loose. He told a LIFE reporter: "The local papers that say I was just a normal boy are trying to think of something not bad to say. I had a wonderful time, but I was a real rounder. I didn't study hard, and I had to quit high school football because I couldn't devote myself to learning the plays. I stole things from stores, and I was just drifting through, a sort of no-good...
...actuality, the ball was rounder than the final score might indicate. When one of the five WHRBies who remembered to show up for the game was drafted in a touching halftime ceremony, the hapless Radiomen engaged the services of varsity football fullback Bill Grana...
...ages, female toes, insteps and heels have been pummeled, prodded and ultimately propelled into shoes that resemble the human foot purely coincidentally and only occasionally. The pointed-toe look, still so popular last year that a Texas doctor made a fortune amputating little toes, gradually gave way to a rounder toe before blunting off altogether into this year's square look. Once into the shoes, only the problem of walking on the ever-so-chic, sliver-thin heels remained. This season, a comfortable look in women's shoes emerged. The low-heeled, easy-fitting shoe is not only...