Word: roundness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...student leaders (including the president and vice president of the student body). Some of the expelled students were actually pro-American, said President Asato, "but they failed in their responsibilities to keep other students in line." Asato shrewdly acted while students were on vacation, to spare the U.S. another round of mass demonstrations by students, most of whom seemed to be in sympathy with those expelled...
...Next week ABC will launch Treasure Hunt (Fri. 9 p.m.), offering a paltry $25,000 to the person who picks the right treasure out of a muckle of 50 chests. If he misses the moneybags, he may still win title to a car, speedboat, house trailer, round-the-world cruise or a head of cabbage. Treasure Hunt will be the only show on the air that will call for old-fashioned wishbone-type luck. Says ABC President Bob Kintner: "We are more interested in giving away entertainment...
...Sukarno was crying (in English) "Hands off Egypt!" at a Djakarta mass meeting, one of his delegates was saying privately in London: "We young nations need the tools of industrialization that come to us through the canal−and we cannot afford, as you can, to have them go round the longer and more expensive way. This is what we are telling Nasser." France's Foreign Minister Pineau made the same point to the conference, in a shrewd effort to divert the issue from Nasser's cry of colonialism...
...earth satellite that the U.S. will launch sometime during the International Geophysical Year (July 1957 through December 1958) will be as round and silvery as any moon over Tin Pan Alley. The man-made moon will be a shiny magnesium sphere 20 inches in diameter, weighing 21½ Ibs., according to details revealed this week in Detroit by the contractor, Brooks & Perkins...
...with the convention like an athletic contest, sprinkled his copy with sports allusions and such gems as his description of Happy Chandler's campaign grin ("A hawg-jowl smile, meaty and succulent, with collard greens on the side"), Governor Frank Clement's coiffure ("He wears a small round part in his dark hair"), and political pundits ("sports experts with their shirttails tucked...