Word: roundness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Other men sitting round the Lancaster House table with Dulles accepted the equation, but had their reservations. Western Europeans feared that the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. might compromise on a European zone alone. In the process Germany might be left divided, a large part of the continent might conceivably be turned into a neutralized zone crisscrossed by international inspection teams, the countries themselves forced to submerge their strategic and political identities in a buffer zone between the two superpowers...
Fifteen places remain for the second bus trip to the Stratford Shakespeare Festival this Sunday, the Summer School has announced. For $6.50 any student who makes a reservation at Mrs. Clouser's office in Greys Hall before noon tomorrow will get a round-trip ticket and an orchestra seat for the matinee performance of Merchant of Venice...
...Yankee sea captain in the "nigger business." but has now repented of his slave-trading ways, and settled down as a Spanish-mossbacked Southern gentleman whose vassals are so happy that they all mass by ol' man river to sing hallelujah whenever Gable's steamboat comes round the bend. Yvonne is also cooing Gable's glory, though in more intimate circumstances. The trouble comes from Sidney Poitier, a pampered boss Negro whom Gable raised as a son; Sidney has turned bitter, would like nothing better than to plant kindly Massa Clark...
Oliver Cromwell, Puritan man of iron, had his way, and on Jan. 30, 1649, Charles I of England was beheaded in London's Whitehall Palace. British Author Hugh Ross Williamson has joined the round-by-round school of writers who have lately described what happened on the night the Titanic went down, the day Christ died, and other fateful brief moments in world history. Like the others, he has brought nothing new to his main story, but his detailed preoccupation with dramatic incident has concocted in The Day They Killed the King a captivating capsule of history, one easy...
...effort is all that it was. Verne's "science-fiction stories can no longer be accepted as 'documentaries,' " says Editor I. O. Evans, because they are riddled with inaccuracies. Moreover, a story like Round the Moon cannot even be relished for its fantasy value, because to modern "readers of 'space-opera,' a mere flight round the moon, culminating in a drop into the Pacific, seems almost humdrum...