Word: roundly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...correct your book critic's implication that Rally Round the Flag, Boys! [Dec. 30] is being enjoyed only by the retarded, may I point out that the book received excellent notices in the New York Times, New York Herald Tribune, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times and a couple of hundred other newspapers...
...Lieut. General James Gavin concluded his closed-door testimony before the Senate Preparedness Subcommittee one day last week, Chairman Lyndon Johnson scribbled out a press statement summarizing the testimony and handed it to Gavin. Old Soldier Gavin hurriedly looked it over and okayed it. With that began Round Two of the extraordinary story of Jim Gavin's proffered resignation from the U.S. Army (TIME...
...most successful team in college basketball out of a band of boys from West Virginia and neighboring Pennsylvania. In other years, Schaus's boys from back home too often panicked at the first tweak of big-time pressure; last year, for example, West Virginia collapsed in the first round of the N.C.A.A. tournament. But this year the Mountaineers went at it with slick skill, won the high-pressure Kentucky Invitational tournament by snapping the winning streak (at 37) of North Carolina, last year's national champions...
...with a gesture of creation but with an act of destruction. The daughter murders her father's mistress (Deborah Kerr). Technically, the death is either a suicide or an accident, but if the method is euphemistic the meaning is clear. Father and daughter drift off on an aimless round of inconsequential pleasures...
...long hunt for a home-away-from-home for the Dodgers while their permanent park is being built seemed to have ended in the former minor league home of the Los Angeles Angels. Then the Dodgers' rotund president gave the O'Malley-go-round another spin...