Word: roundness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they knew that he could do himself anything he demanded of his air groups-and he knew well the fine line between possible and impossible. Once, while his flagship Yorktown was in the Philippines area, Radford got-orders to send his F4-U Corsairs on a 1,200-mile round-trip attack on Japan. The fighters, he calculated rapidly, would have only five minutes over the target and would not have enough fuel to return if they tangled with the enemy. He signaled his dissent with a famous line: "Negative-no safety factor," and the task force order was canceled...
Never before had the 400-odd island villagers of North Haven seen such a fine schoolteacher and all-round nice fellow as lovable, affable Martin Godgart. A happy, hulking (6 ft., 250 lb.), multichinned chap with a Harvard accent, Godgart turned up last September on the tiny Penobscot Bay island off the coast of Maine, flashed a schoolteacher's certificate, got himself a job teaching high-school English, Latin and French. He quickly made friends with the normally reserved down-East folk; they liked his jolly ways, his eagerness to participate in North Haven affairs. He formed...
...wife. When the Queen's plane rolled to a stop, he climbed briskly aboard, entered Elizabeth's private compartment, and, less than two minutes later, appeared again at the cabin door at a protocol distance behind his poised and smiling wife. A few minutes later, after a round of formal smiles and handshakes, the royal couple, apparently unconscious of the peering eyes of the press and the world, entered their car and drove off in dignified silence to the yacht Britannia...
...team championship, the Crimson did not fare so well, dropping out in the first round to the Philadelphia team, Cal Place lost a tight 3-2 match by one point in the fifth game, Larry Sears sprained his ankle in the first game and had to default, Charlie Hamm dropped a 3-2 match, Charlie MacVeagh bowed 3-1, and Henry Cortesi lost...
...National Amateur Indoor Championships at New York, Dale Junta, first man on Coach Jack Barnaby's tennis team, won a long three-set match from Les Dodson in the first round, before bowing to Eddie Moylan, 6-4, 11-9, in the second. Moylan is one of America's top-ranked players...