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Word: roundness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most action-filled fight of the evening in the House division was the 175-pound match between Eliot's Dan Morgan and Dudley's A.L. Barringer. Near the end of the second round, Barringer, a southpaw, knocked Morgan halfway across the ring with a ferocious right. In the next round, Morgan reciprocated by belting Barringer completely out of the ring, and continued, to gain the decision...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Commuters Win Boxing Title; Kirkland Takes Second Place | 3/8/1958 | See Source »

Manless, always hoping that her husband will come back, Felicia plunges into plantation work and gradually she gives up all pretense at social life. When her son is killed by the arrow of a savage tribesman, nothing is left for Felicia but the daily round, the deepening identification with the island's character, a contemplation of past and present, tinged with a lonely woman's resentment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: What an Old Lady Knows | 3/3/1958 | See Source »

Baldly told, without regard to Author Cicellis' luminous sensibility and genuine compassion. Ten Seconds from Now could seem as world-wearily neurasthenic as Françoise Sagan's round-robin tournaments of amour. Dominique loves Nondas who has eyes only for Erne. Diki is engaged to Vangos but pines for Jason who solaces himself with Aemilia. Monarches loves his wife Julia who leaves him for a nameless lover for whom she has waited for 15 years. Danae loves Simos who is too poor to offer marriage but can pay for an abortion. Sentimental Vivi is perhaps poorest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: On the Greek Air | 3/3/1958 | See Source »

...King Hussein, who needed federation far more than his oil-rich cousin, rose and announced that he would defer to Feisal as head of state. Hussein went into a stenographer's office to supervise typing of the final draft. At 7:45 a.m. 22 negotiators crowded round a table in the main hall of King Hussein's palace and signed a twelve-point federation agreement bound in the red, green, black and white colors of Jordan and Iraq. "This is one of the happiest moments of my life," cried Feisal, and embraced his cousin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: To Bring Forth a New Union | 2/24/1958 | See Source »

...still as fond of attractive women as he was in his bachelor days, has squired a collection of them through Europe. Kis current favorite is dark, stately Penelope Kitson, 34, a British divorcee and mother of three children. Still healthy and vigorous, Getty keeps in shape with a daily round of calisthenics, dyes his hair, has had his face lifted in a London clinic. He drinks sparingly of dark rum in Coca-Cola, constantly munches chocolates, does not smoke, and does not like others to smoke in his presence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: The Do-lt-Yourself Tycoon | 2/24/1958 | See Source »

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