Word: roundness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dulles left the hearing room after four hours of testimony, the Democratic liberals were ready with statements of shocked incredulity for the press. But the overflow crowd gave Dulles a hearty round of applause. In his first hours against the storm, the Secretary of State had indeed done well. He had eased as many of the apprehensions about U.S. foreign policy as a Cabinet officer could. But the problems and the dangers were still there, and so was the heat of a presidential election year...
...newspapers were not silent about arrests and executions in other parts of the country. Month after month the Hsiao Mieh totals were issued, almost always in round figures: 1,150,000 in the central-south provinces, 1,176,000 in "four administrative regions," 300,000 in the five northwest provinces, and so on. Said Lo calmly: "A large number of people with blood debts have been executed...
Last month, afraid that an all-round wage hike would whip Israel's cantering inflation into a gallop, the government reneged on a promise to raise professionals' pay. The professionals had taken all they could: 8,000 of them went on strike. Doctors, judges, lawyers, engineers, teachers and civil servants walked out of clinics, courtrooms, lecture halls and government offices, leaving the untrained and unskilled to fend for themselves. Said striking professors at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem: ''The future of Israel in the Middle East depends on its position as a state highly developed...
Ever since that honest Indian, Jim Thorpe, Olympic track-and-field star and all-round athlete, discovered that he had sold out his amateur standing for the pottage ($25 a week) of two summers of bush league baseball, amateur athletes have worked at padding their expense accounts as assiduously as they have worked at their chosen sports. But the subterfuge never appealed to Kansas Runner Wes Santee. Fastest miler in U.S. history (4:00.5), Wes was out to make his way from his speed on the track-and he cared not who knew what he was doing. Rarely...
...games to break Ernie Beck's all-time Ivy scoring record. Lee is a consistently fine ball-player, able to hit on sets or drives, and will be the main threat to the Crimson. Captain Ed Robinson, the team's top rebounder, Dean Loucks, Chuck Ross, and Tom Sargent round out the Eli quintet...