Word: ranged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...outrageous are among his chief weapons. On a recent tour in Cleveland, Bing desperately wanted to persuade an exhausted Franco Corelli to substitute for an ailing tenor. He went to Corelli's hotel, got his room number, went upstairs, knelt in a prayerful attitude before the door and rang the bell. The door opened. A disheveled woman squawked in astonishment. Hmmm, wrong room. Begging her pardon, Bing dusted off his knees, strolled away, found the right room, knelt, rang the bell. Corelli could not turn him down...
...pressmen, last of the squabbling unions to make peace, had finally settled; the stereotypers were scheduled to vote approval of their contract at week's end. The long-deferred New York World Journal Tribune was actually getting ready to put out a newspaper, and Conniff's phone rang constantly. Columnist after columnist wanted to ask his new boss for the honor of appearing in the first issue...
...cubicle in the carport for the Secret Service. As soon as Luci and Pat had stowed their luggage at home, they set off for the supermarket to load up on frozen pizzas, dill pickles, potato chips and other staples for the pantry. Pat whistled in disbelief when the checker rang up the inflationary...
...shortly before midnight, off went White House telegrams to steel magnates who had not yet decided what to do. This resulted in a certain amount of confusion. One Pennsylvania-based steel company chief executive was away from home as late as 1:15 a.m. When the phone rang, his teen-aged daughter answered, was startled to hear a Western Union operator inform her, she thought, that she was being invited to Washington to discuss the matter of possible price increases in the steel industry...
...have called up the nun in charge, passed himself off as a representative of the cardinal's office, kept pumping her for details which he needed, he said, to plan supplies for the survivors. On hearing that Millionaire Fight Promoter Tex Rickard was seriously ill, Romanoff promptly rang up Mrs. Rickard. "This is Governor Len Small of Illinois," he intoned. "I am distressed to hear of the illness of my old friend Tex. Tell me, Mrs. Rickard, how is he?" "He's dying, Governor," the tearful spouse replied, and Romanoff had another scoop...