Word: roundness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...began drinking heavily, and preferred what he called his "ashcan life" and "craggy characters" to the Washington social round...
...naval supremacy, and possibly dockyards, were over. Politically-minded Maltese talked of revolution and self-government, but a better idea came up: Why not put a clove hitch in the British umbilical? Last week Maltese Prime Minister Dom Mintoff and a delegation of Maltese went to London for a round-table conference with a group from the Mother of Parliaments, and put the idea to the British M.P.s in specific terms: make Malta an integral part of the United Kingdom (like Northern Ireland...
...monthlong, "entirely personal" air trip around the world, during which he will visit twelve countries. Cruising from port to port in the Mediterranean aboard Shipping Magnate Aristotle Onassis' luxury yacht, Swedish Sphinx Greta Garbo spent her 50th birthday at sea. Confident that she would swim the English Channel round trip and non-stop to international acclaim, California's Florence Chadwick set out thoroughly greased from Dover, but after giving up a mile off the French coast, was beached by irate French customs officials, who took a dim view of her arrival or departure without a passport...
...Plymouth out of the industry's No. 3 spot last year, Buick Manager Ivan L. Wiles has fixed his sights on the No. 2 spot, now alternating between Ford and Chevrolet. Buick will up production by 100,000 cars to 900,000 in '56, and to a round...
Most will agree with Camus that the disappearance of God from the calculations of the modern intellectual has put a rope of despair round his neck. And they may respect Camus' astonishingly simple faith that things will be more comfortable if it is agreed to call despair "lack of hope," and the rope a cravat...