Word: roundness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crucial difficulty with the "ill-advised" Food Report and the muddly ticket report was the fact that Administration officers lead the report writers around a seemingly endless series of gorse bushes, round which the intrepid investigators seemed calmly content to trot. Said the ticket report: "We have been unable to obtain an exact accounting for all tickets in Section 31. A cursory observation would seem to indicate that some of these tickets are used by groups other than these listed". The Food Committee was repeatedly promised but never given a copy of the Dining Hall budget...
...Australia's Ken Rosewall and Lew Hoad hardly worked up a sweat making a clean sweep (5-0) of the challenge round for the Davis Cup. They breezed by the worst U.S. team in years, got no real opposition from Pennsylvania's Vic Seixas or California's Herb Flam, had only momentary trouble with an up-and-coming Texan named Sam Giammalva. With the big silver punch bowl lost to the Aussies for the second successive year, wishful-thinking U.S. fans salvaged some consolation from Giammalva's performance and the fact that Ken Rosewall decided right...
...ROUND-THE-WORLD FLIGHTS will be offered early in 1957 by Trans World Airlines, second U.S. carrier to do so (first: Pan American World Airways). T.W.A. got CAB approval to extend its route eastward from Bombay and Ceylon to Manila, link up there with Northwest Airlines...
...answer is the old hockey word "hustle," which the Crimson used to great advantage in defeating Boston University in the semi-finals and B.C. in the finals. And the hustle itself was prompted by a near-upset at the hands of Army in the first round...
Almost all of the Crimson wrestlers won first round matches while the most successful got into the fourth round. "They looked very good," said the usually non-commital Pickett...