Word: roundness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...routine. He followed the World Series-"one of the finest series in modern times." He took in his first football game since entering the White House, cheered loudly for the losers as the new U.S. Air Force Academy went down 20-0 to George Washington University. He played a round of golf with old Army friends, including retired Lieut. General Floyd Parks, who shot a 155-yd. hole in one with a No. 6 iron. The President's health, said the White House's Dr. Howard McC. Snyder, is "as good as it could possibly...
...Bridge. Thousands of Americans who see the Queen during the coming round of balls and receptions, and millions more who get only a glimpse on the television screen, may detect Philip at this small but important task. But this is only one facet of a larger achievement. In the increasingly equalitarian Britain of the postwar years, Britain's monarchy found itself subject to a questioning, scarcely articulated, of the utility of an expensive royal household whose members saw only other aristocrats and seemed chiefly concerned with horse racing or - shooting grouse. But today, Britain's throne has never...
...speaker's hunched stoop punctuated by the backthrust of head, the sense that great statements might be made without pomposity or apology, the rolling periods, all inevitably evoked memories of Conservatism's greatest living orator, Winston Churchill. Cheers grew even louder when Hailsham hauled round and delivered a slashing attack on Labor's unionists' "spending spree" "demands without programs and restraint" as trade the greatest threats in the fight against inflation, thundered: "I believe they would drive the qualified, the young and the vigorous to migrate, and leave the aged at home deprived of their savings...
Ideal Toy Corp. thundered into round-the-clock production with a sleek new $4.98 "Satellite Launcher/' complete with rotating radar tracking station, which can fire four plastic disks 75 ft. into space. Another gadget: a $7.98 "Sky Sweeper Truck." which beams searchlight silhouettes of jet planes against a wall, shoots them down with two "Nike" rockets. In seven days Ideal shipped out 100,000 Satellite Launchers, another 50,000 Sky Sweeper trucks. "This may be a propaganda blow to the U.S.," cried an Ideal executive...
...tobacconist's for "an ounce of Cavendish cut-plug." O'Casey everywhere respects the dignity of childhood as a full existence in itself, as he recaptures a boy's hazy sense that a world offered by Victorian grownups as square is, all the same round...