Word: roundness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...record, America with a 1-1 record, and Poland with a 0-2 record, in Group B. The top two teams from each of the three groups enter the finals. Canada and Russia, the two leading favorites, have already assured themselves of spots in the final round-robin...
...hockey team faces stiff competition in the round robin tournament deciding the gold medal winner. Canada, which has won the past five gold medals, rates as the favorite, along with a powerful Russian squad, which is entered for the first time...
...limit). By the time he was 18, "the Boston Tar Baby" was so good that he could beat almost anyone who would give him a bout. In 1906, weighing only 146, he tackled future Heavyweight Champion Jack Johnson (185 Ibs.). Only the bell saved Johnson from a fifth-round knockout; only a dubious decision saved him the fight. Afterwards, big Jack would never fight Sam again...
...latest step in Japan's Westernization is an entrechat. In Tokyo alone there are an estimated 600 ballet schools, where round-faced girls in soup-bowl haircuts and black leotards are stretching their bodies at exercise bars. On the sidelines most mothers nod approvingly, but some older Japanese nurse a suspicion that the strange movements will make the girls barren. Ballet movies are a sensation, and at least one of them (Red Shoes) started a teen-age craze .for carrying ballet slippers, whether the owners were studying ballet or not. Dozens of school companies present productions whenever they...
Freeman tied for first going into the final round of the tournament, then met and lost to Mednis in what he termed "a swift and not very beautiful debacle." "My win over Lyman was very unfortunate," Freeman said, "for I had no chance of winning...