Word: roundness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week, at the close of a hectic four-month U.N. session, Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold prepared to fly to Cairo to open the next round with the Egyptian dictator. In an interview with an Indian reporter, Nasser confirmed Egypt's veto of an interim proposal put forward through the U.N. last month by the U.S., Britain, France and Norway. By this plan, 50% of canal tolls would be paid to Egypt, the rest to some such neutral agency as the World Bank, to be held in escrow for repaying the original owners of the confiscated canal company. Instead...
...after school he made the boy run. slide, throw, catch until his hands hung dead on his wrists. "We're going for the big leagues, boy," he would mutter fiercely, and the child would nod fiercely in agreement. At 17 Jim was a spectacular outfielder whose all-round talents won the state championship for his high-school team; but his father was never satisfied. "How'd I do, dad?" Jim asked anxiously after playing a prodigious game. And father implacably replied, "Not bad, son. But you weren't on your toes all the time, and you know...
...never told anyone about his headaches, not even when they became chronic-a round-the-clock ring of obsessive fathers hurling baseball, baseball, baseball at his head. He certainly did not dare to tell his father. The only time Jim ever really interfered with father's ambitions-he sprained an ankle in a skating fall-the old man had a heart attack. After that, since mother Piersall was an invalid too, Jim was the sole support of his family; and as the pressure to make good got stronger, the headaches got worse...
...first round winners will meet Saturday night at the Broadmoor Ice Palace for the championship, while the losers play for consolation honors Saturday afternoon...
...Colorado-bound varsity hockey team received a stroke of good luck yesterday when it drew Michigan as its first round opponent in the NCAA hockey tournament starting next Thursday. The Crimson will play the Huskies Friday night, while favored Colorado College meets Clarkson Thursday night...