Word: roundness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...further compounded by the assiduously reported Washington notion that he spends more and more of his time on the golf course, has little interest in the running of Government. In cold fact, the President is at his desk daily at 7:45 a.m. for the morning's round of appointments, spends most of his afternoons doing the essential staff work that the presidency requires, consistently shows his grasp of key principles and detail at Cabinet and top-level strategy meetings. Moreover, by delegating details, the President heads a well-oiled, relatively trouble-free Administration where the ripe feuds...
...There is nothing worse," contended Ohio's James Middleton Cox, "than an invertebrate publisher." Stocky, round-faced Jim Cox was one of the higher vertebrates in a generation of publishers that included such well-spined warriors as William Randolph Hearst, Joseph Pulitzer and Colonel Robert McCormick. As a journalist, he practiced his preachment that newspapers "should tell the truth as only intellectual honesty can discern the truth." As a politician, Democrat Cox was also notable for intellectual honesty. And he almost achieved the classic American cycle: born on a log-cabin farm, he got to be a Congressman...
...timers were knocked out. Even Sammy Snead could not survive the tournament's fourth round. When the four semifinalists teed off last week in the Professional Golfers' Association championship in Dayton, Ohio, the gallery fastened on two businesslike young-timers: lean Dow Finsterwald, 27, playing his first P.G.A., and chunky Lionel ("Frenchy") Hebert,* 29, who had never won a major tournament...
From their first drives, the young pros buckled down confidently to the high-pressure match play, a hole-by-hole, pair-by-pair elimination contest in which the player who takes the most holes wins the round. Ohioan Finsterwald. playing a cool game in 93° heat, won-by two holes over California's Don Whitt, 26, despite a tremendous rally by Whitt that included a startling hole-in-one on the 145-yd. 13th. Hebert, meanwhile, was hitting his approach shots with machine-gun precision, putting straight enough on Dayton's tricky greens to knock off Michigan...
...these, says Author Wallace lovingly, were square pegs in round holes: "They said nay when others said aye." If we refuse to "dissent and disagree" as they did, "man will have lost his last battle and his last chance." This is a deeply moving suggestion, even though many will probably prefer to lose the battle and retain their sanity...