Word: roundness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rescue stations. Screeching fire trucks and ambulances, their red lights blinking eerily, roared away from the flight line; but there was no rescue. In flat disciplined tones, the Westover control tower operator ordered the fourth KC-135, already set for the mission-and, with Cocoa, scheduled for a nonstop round-trip to London-to return to the flight line...
...circle of P.R.I. politicians, and he has used the campaign mostly as a chance to show his face to the people in all 29 states. Crowds have been well-ordered and speeches safe: "Every Mexican has the right to enjoy the liberty created by our heroes." But in small round-table sessions everywhere he went, wavy-haired López Mateos, a deskman by training, has lined up the loyalty of political leaders who count. Like his predecessor, Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, he will probably head a government that talks to the left in public but runs down the political middle...
...room, 2) whisky, 3) an explanation from the British embassy's second secretary for not meeting him at the airport. When the secretary explained about curfew, Churchill decided to go higher, hung up with "I'll telephone the ambassador-you're not much use." Hoisting another round, he ran afoul of an aide, who refused to disturb Ambassador George Middleton. Schemes agley, Randolph Churchill ordered a seat on a London-bound plane leaving within the hour, gave his thought for the day to bystanders: "Do you know, tomorrow I'll be back among my roses...
...Palace, then the waiting room for the main Louvre collection. In 1894 the painter Gustave Caillebotte bequeathed the nation 67 prize impressionist paintings, had 38 grudgingly accepted for the Luxembourg, including Renoir's Le Moulin de la Galette, Pissarro's Red Roofs. By 1911, opinion had swung round so completely that when Count Isaac de Camondo willed the Louvre 56 impressionist paintings (including Degas' Foyer de la Danse, Manet's The Fifer), they were accepted unanimously by the Curators' Committee...
...until the 18th hole in the final round of the U.S. Golf Association's women's open did California's Mickey Wright, 23, admit to herself that she had a chance to win. Then she flubbed her approach shot and had to settle for a par. But she was still right where she had been all through the tournament-far in front. She finished five strokes ahead of Georgia's Louise Suggs, became the first woman ever to win the pro and open titles in the same season...