Word: roundness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Special Dedication. Even before LeMay finished testifying, the Administration brought up its big bazooka. Defense Secretary Charles Wilson, to fire a challenging round. His "best information," said Engine Charlie enigmatically at a news conference, was that the Russians are indeed producing more long-range bombers than the U.S., but "in itself that is not a very high rate either for us or for them." Speaking of Curt LeMay, he added: "A dedicated specialist usually gets pretty well sold on his particular part of the business. That is no criticism . . . but in my experience, if you added up the desires...
...swallowed a jackhammer. Full-cut hair tousles over his forehead, and sideburns frame his petulant, full-lipped face. His style is partly hillbilly, partly socking rock 'n' roll. His loud baritone goes raw and whining in the high notes, but down low it is rich and round. As he throws himself into one of his specialties-Heartbreak Hotel, Blue Suede Shoes or Long Tall Sally-his throat seems full of desperate aspirates ("Hi want you, hi need you, hi luh-huh-huh-huv yew-hew") or hiccuping glottis strokes, and his diction is poor. But his movements suggest...
TRANSATLANTIC RATE WAR is stirring up between Pan American and Trans World Airlines. Besides first-class and tourist flights, Pan American proposes a third cut-rate (no free meals, smaller seats, more stops) service for $458 round trip between New York and Paris v. $558 for its lowest current fare...
T.W.A. is countering with plans for a 15-day excursion flight from New York to London for $350 round trip. Big stumbling block to both plans: they must be approved by the International Air Transport Assn., whose European members are against any fare decrease...
Harvey Love's heavies, second to the Tigers by about a length and two-thirds in the morning qualifying round, never seriously figured in the final, and trailed winner Cornell, Yale, Penn, and Princeton. Winning time was 6:10.0 over the 2,000 metre Potomac course...