Word: roundness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Elements. Alaska has already made a running start with the resource of people. Anchorage, near the Kenai Peninsula, vibrates with a population of 35,000, has an opulent subdivision of $35,000 homes built by enterprising Wally Hickel. Two tall apartment houses peak the skyline, a glassed-in, year-round swimming pool ripples within sight of icy mountains, and fashionably dressed men and women frequent the Westward Hotel's spiffy cocktail lounge. Juneau still straggles with dingy, narrow streets from the roaring gold-rush times. Local phone service ends twelve miles from town, electricity 19 miles, the road...
DuMoulin placed fourth in the hammer with a toss of 173 feet, 9 inches, made in the qualifying round. Pescosolido bested his qualifying throw of 188 feet, 10 inches, but his 190 foot throw Saturday did not change his fifth place Friday standing...
...hardy band of 82 Russian-speaking wanderers who call themselves "Old Believers," the men in flowing beards and the women in bright peasant dresses, were sailing last week on the latest leg of a religious odyssey that has taken them halfway round the world. Behind them lay 300 years of persecution, an exodus from Russia across Asia, a bitter exile in Communist China. Ahead was a free, pioneering life in the forests of Brazil...
STOCK TRADING on New York Stock Exchange is up almost 10% from last year's bull-market level. Round-lot and odd-lot trading stands at 232 million shares, v. 211 million a year ago-a plain sign that the public has plenty of money...
...couple of days of good Will, and the training sergeant (Myron McCormick), a man prepared for almost anything but affection, has been almost killed with kindness. Desperate, he decides to fit the round peg in a round hole. Though regulations forbid such cruel and unusual punishments, the sergeant secretly assigns Will as "P.L.O.-Permanent Latrine Orderly." "P.L.O.!" gasps Will, "Oh, thank you, sir." And he proceeds to prove himself such an orderly orderly that the captain compliments him on the condition of the latrine. Will allows that most of the credit belongs to the sergeant who-"He what!" the captain...