Word: roundness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...round-table discussions that started the next morning, frankness was the rule, brushing away misunderstandings and bolstering mutual confidence, more vital to an international alliance than agreement or disagreement on particular issues. At the conference's first formal session, Macmillan started off by saying that the recent rupture between the two nations was a matter to be mentioned and then firmly set aside; Eisenhower said that the U.S. had no desire to talk about "spilled milk...
...Center at Cape Canaveral, Fla., behind high security fences, the ICBM was stripped of its shroud, its garish yellow, black and red skin exposed to the light of day. Soon more than 300 Air Force and Convair scientists, engineers and technicians were primping and pampering "the Bird," grooming its round and bulbous nose, its disproportionately thick waist, its flared skirt, its unbelievably complex and exotic mechanism. One day soon, perhaps late in April, perhaps early in May, the Bird will make its first flight. From a sickle-shaped launching pad near a sunny vacation shore the Bird will be fired...
Ufford was the tournament's second seeded player behind defending champion Ben Heckscher, who was forced to default in the second round because of pre-vacation tennis practice. A former varsity squash captain, Ufford is one of the country's leading players...
...tense third round last week, Patty Berg dropped temporarily to third, two strokes behind 19-year-old Amateur Anne Quast, one stroke back of Mickey Wright. But on the final round the old pro stuck a shamrock in her hat and hit men's par on every hole except three. On those she shot birdies. She finished with a flashy 69. Her 72-hole total of 296 made her Titleholders champ, three strokes in front of faltering Anne Quast. It pushed her 1957 winnings to $3,863, highest of the lady pros...
...Wapshots are a once-virile New England family rapidly outliving both their affluence and influence. Like the town of St. Botolphs where they live, they once drew their power from the sea. Time was when Wapshot boys got their baptism of life by sailing round the Horn, their baptism of sex on some Pacific island. Now the shipbuilding yards are silent and old Leander, head of the family, is reduced to ferrying trippers in a worn-out tub of a boat. His world is gone and frequently he has to take refuge in dreams of his lustier youth, but Leander...