Word: roundness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...look over at Davis' house to see if the kitchen light was on. If he decided his friend was out of bed, Hall would go next door, and over a pot of strong coffee the two would discuss big do-it-yourself projects. After another round of coffee and more planning in the Hall kitchen, they would go to work. In their time Hall and Davis have: stripped down and reassembled Davis' Ford; lowered the ceiling and completely modernized the Hall kitchen; enlarged Davis' porch; built bookcases and a large storage closet in Davis' house. Nothing...
...Emphasizing its new status, however, Pakistan let it be known it would not welcome Lord Louis Mountbatten, last Viceroy of India and now Britain's First Sea Lord, who planned to visit Pakistan in the course of a round-robin visit to Commonwealth naval commanders. Pakistan links Mountbatten with bitter memories of the partition of India and Pakistan. Mountbatten bowed gracefully to the protests and canceled his visit...
...afford either the tactlessness or the impatience it has shown in some of its recent actions. Yet there also seemed to be a good deal in what Lawyer Thurgood Marshall said when he insisted that neither Autherine Lucy nor the N.A.A.C.P. were the real losers of this latest round. "You," he told a reporter, "and other American citizens have lost...
...small communities (none over 150,000 population) in its market area. But AGE's hungriest customers are the power-consuming plants that have been lured into the area by plentiful, low price power, e.g., the Atomic Energy Commission's huge Portsmouth, Ohio, project whose round-the-clock 1,800,000 kw. appetite is met by AGE (38%) and 14 other utilities that combined to form the $400 million Ohio Valley Electric Corp...
East-West tensions tug more severely at brother Kit. When Mama unleashes the marriage brokers to round up a suitable bride for him, Kit balks: "How can I marry a girl I have not even seen? Sleep with her, call her my wife?" But after Premala, a devoted homebody with a sweet disposition, lives with the family for a few months, even Kit can think of no good reason for not marrying...