Word: ranged
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Meanwhile, SWAT members rang the club's doorbell and chanted, "One, two, three, four, open up the front door." At one point, Fly club president Joel S. Post '89 came up to the door and told the protesters to "get off our porch...
Within 30 seconds of the nuclear blast last Wednesday, a phone rang in the control room 30 miles away. Soviet Scientist Viktor Mikhailov picked it up. He punched the air to register glee at receiving precise information on the bomb yield; the control room burst into applause. The underground test the group was celebrating, however, was American, held at remote Pahute Mesa, Nev. Seven Soviets were in the control room to gauge whether measuring devices accurately calculated how powerful the explosion had been...
...face." Another plot, in the '60s, involved renting a submarine to surprise Jackie Kennedy and little Caroline yachting in the Mediterranean. Leggett admits with a wink, "Neither plan made it past the second glass of ale." Balfour once sent a reporter to find paradise. The intrepid investigator rang up $10,000 on his expense account by visiting Tahiti, Hawaii, Uganda and Scandinavia. Finally, he found a remote island. Unfortunately, the paradise prohibited tourists, and the story was killed. "Once we had so many Brits on the road that three reporters, all sent by different editors, were bunked at the same...
...phones rang off the hook when we promoted this show," says Hudson, a bit defensively...
There are times when the national sickness of racial hostility becomes almost unbearable. One night Smith heard the roar of cars racing past his house, the squeal of tires, then the rattle of gunfire and an explosion. Sometime later the phone rang, and the black woman on the line sounded on the edge of hysteria. She and her husband were known as antiapartheid activists. Their house had just been fire-bombed, and two of her sister's children had been badly burned...