Word: roundness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Over Christmas vacation Emmet accomplished a rare feat for a freshman. He reached the quarter-final round of the College Invitational Tournament, defeating Yale's number-two varsity player, Ed Meyer...
Rolling a 75-mm. howitzer over the Statehouse lawn, Rhode Island National Guard artillerymen positioned it for a 19-round inaugural salute to their new governor. Then, gun poised, the guardsmen waited, joining in the speculation that gripped the tiny state on New Year's Day: whether the salute when fired would honor Republican Christopher Del Sesto, 49, declared the winner by the board of elections (TIME, Dec. 31), or Democratic Governor Dennis J. Roberts, 53, who had suddenly challenged Del Sesto's narrow triumph in the State Supreme Court...
...next three days the First Party Secretary was inexplicably missing from the round of Moscow parties, but at week's end he turned up at a reception for a delegation of East German Communists. Glass in hand, Khrushchev explained that he had been down to Budapest fighting off the "imperialists" and establishing a strong Stalinist line...
...challenger's defense was better than his awkward, plodding style suggested; his offense was a barrage of punches from everywhere. In the 14th round his slashing gloves split open old scar tissue, and the champion's left eye leaked blood. "Rip 'at eye wide open, Gene, rip it open," pleaded an ex-Robinson rooter in the 19th row. Sugar Ray fought back with a tired, sometimes frenzied grace, but he was punched out. No one could quarrel with the judges' unanimous decision that Gene Fullmer was winner of at least eight of the 15 rounds...
Misery & Mirages. By last week it was clear who had won the first round in the Battle of Castelpoto. Between 400 and 500 people were attending daily Mass-a record 1,500 came on Sunday. A day nursery had been organized, a social assistance program had been set up by landowners for the village poor, a television set from Benevento was functioning, and a social hall, a sewage system and a soccer team were in the planning stage...