Word: roundness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Oct. 19--Turkey, the West's candidate for a seat on the U.N. Security Council, went into a slight lead over Communist Poland yesterday in a new round of voting. But the Turks were well short of a two-thirds majority, and the East-West deadlock persisted...
...ROUND-THE-WORLD JET service was started by Pan American with new long-range Boeing 707 Intercontinentals. Jet flying time from New York around the world to Los Angeles will be about 38 hours v. 66 hours on piston-engine planes. Actual elapsed time will be just over two days v. seven days when globe-girdling air service was started...
Mink-Stole Gift. When it arrived, Miraglia headed for the Waldorf, ran up a $73.33 overnight bill (champagne, breakfast in his room). From there, using $57 of his own money, he bought a round-trip air ticket to Hilton's Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, in three days proceeded to charge nearly $300 in hotel, restaurant and car rental bills. As a parting gift for a blonde who had done the town with him, he presented her with a $675 mink stole - using the card, of course...
...week-long round of top-level, top-secret exchanges among Western leaders reportedly showed yesterday that the basic difference of approach which was so evident earlier this year has become apparent again following Macmillan's Oct. 8 election victory...
...your party. You'll play another round of literary hopscotch--"I read Jude the Obscure last summer." "Oh, did you? I just finished Tom Jones, it's the first picaresque novel." And then you'll talk, in small attentive groups, of value judgments and semantic differences; or you'll remind each other that you have no identities yet, and speculate about Our Generation. Pull off each garment covering your souls, but don't worry, you can't escape the cliche. It's Saturday night, gentlemen, and I'm staying home to study...