Word: roundness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Olympic hockey team, picked in pre-Olympic polls to finish no better than fourth, rolled to a 9-4 victory over Czechoslovakia at Cortina, Italy, Saturday to end up second in the round-robin competition...
...varsity hockey team will face Boston University at 9 p.m. tonight at the Garden in the opening round of its defense of the Beanpot Championship. B.U. gave the Crimson its first defeat of the season on Dec. 9 in overtime, 4 to 3. Northeastern and Boston College play...
Hopefully a winner in her third bedridden round with cancer, courageous Super-Athlete Babe Didrickson Zaharias, 42, checked out of a Galveston, Texas hospital. The leg and hip pains that brought her there were eased after intensive X-ray treatments. A full and final recovery? Said a doctor: "You can't always tell about those things...
...hands of the ugliest man alive. "Oldie," as the boys dubbed him, was the half-insane master of a decrepit boarding school, "a big, bearded man with full lips like an Assyrian king on a monument, immensely strong, physically dirty." Smacking his lips after breakfast. Oldie would gaze round the classroom, pick the day's victim: "Oh, there you are, Rees. you horrid boy. If I'm not too tired, I shall give you a good drubbing this afternoon." When he could, Lewis would withdraw to an oasis of private joy-books, nature and the music of Richard...
Russia's ice hockey team poured in three last-period goals yesterday on its way to a convincing 4 to 0 victory over the United States. The win puts Russia at the head of round-robin competition in the Winter Olympic Games at Cortina...