Word: roundly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Along a dim corridor outside the U.S. Senate chamber one evening strode a big, round-shouldered man with a conspicuous smile curling on lips that more often turn soberly downward. New Mexico's Democratic Senator Clinton P. Anderson was obviously happy with his thoughts. Spotting Anderson alone in the corridor, a newsman hurried up, asked a question heard constantly throughout Washington: "Will he make it?" Anderson paused, drew from his inside coat pocket a well-worn tally sheet, heavily marked with circles and underlines in blue ink. The smile tugged harder at the corners of his mouth...
Having told the Constituent Assembly what to do, Sukarno last April took off on a two-month round-the-world tour. He got an honorary degree in Communist Warsaw, saw a bullfight in Mexico City, by last week was happily roaming Los Angeles in a sky-blue uniform, kissing Joan Crawford, lecturing college professors at U.C.L.A. ("We have split the atom. We are going into space. We can control agriculture. We can control weather. We can control all save the evil hearts...
...Able, a round-eyed monkey and one of the world's first two mammals to go into space and back. See SCIENCE...
...propaganda that a few editors have discreetly hinted recently that the two dailies are incredible bores (TIME, June 1). Last week brought a sign that the government had at last decided to print some news that is fit to be read. Named as the new managing editor of Izvestia: round-cheeked Aleksei I. Adzhubei, garrulous and gregarious as his father-in-law, who happens to be Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev...
...biggest attraction of the mutual fund to dealers and salesmen alike is the hefty "load" charge, or commission, usually 71% to 81% (compared with the 1% commission for round-lot purchases on the New York Stock Exchange). Many a customer howls when told of it. But the funds have a quick rejoinder: they argue that the charge includes the cost of selling out as well as buying, is the price of broad diversification and professional management. If an investor with $4,200 (the average size of a mutual fund holding) tried to buy a diversified portfolio of stocks...