Word: roundness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...took Heavyweight Champion Floyd Patterson less than three minutes to convince every fight fan in the Polo Grounds that his match with Tommy ("Hurricane") Jackson was a wretched mismatch. A pathetic primitive with an awesome capacity for absorbing punishment, Hurricane started leaking blood in the first round and was on his knees at the bell. He went down again in the second, again in the ninth. In between, he did some calisthenics, tried a few yards of roadwork to "unlazy" his legs and continued to catch Floyd's furious punches. Midway in the tenth round, Referee Ruby Goldstein called...
...collegiate final round of the U.S. Public Links Championship at Hershey, Pa., L.S.U. Sophomore Don Essig, 18, was far too steady for S.M.U.'s Gene Towry, 28, won by an impressive 6 and 5 and earned an automatic invitation to the National Amateur in September...
...light. "Indoors," he says, "one can put a piece of sculpture under a flattering light and kid oneself that what only half exists is already there, but a sculpture almost fails to exist under the diffused light of the open if it isn't fully conceived in the round...
...began a leisurely round-the-world vacation in June with his wife and six children, even trim, tireless Bill Graham felt like shedding the cares of business for a relaxing look at exotic sights. But he could not relax as he saw the grinding poverty and encountered the stifling state control and the huge capital shortage that pervades Asia. "Everybody seemed to be sitting around without hope. Nobody seemed to know about free enterprise and what made it click...
...illusions. The killing of Robert Lagave brings with it a moment of shocked awareness that soon fades: Paula weeps and then marries a neighboring landowner; Pierre sighs and goes on to the priesthood, confident of his heavenly credentials; Elisabeth remembers longest, but she, too, slides back into the equable round of days in which even God is little more than "numbness and sleep." These, says Mauriac, are the real dead-not Robert Lagave...