Word: rangely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Through the quiet, ever-grey want-ad columns of the London Times rang a challenging voice last week. It called for "well-educated young men who are willing to take off their coats and learn an exciting trade. Work arduous, filthy; you will be frozen to death in winter and roasted in summer. But the pay is good, and those who make the grade will have a job for life, with every opportunity to climb to a good position. . . . There is no reason why we can't have men who talk like Socrates and work like Hercules...
...different hockey team that took the ice against Princeton last night, and it showed in the results as the Crimson skated circles around the 'visitors and rang up a decisive 6 to 2 win. The Tigers, hampered by heavy losses on their defensive staff, fought hard all night, but were completely bamboozled by last and aggressive Crimson offense and potent defensive work...
Novelist André Malraux, De Gaulle's highbrow pressagent, rang a tocsin of his own: he predicted that Maurice Thorez' Communist legions would soon launch a major offensive which might lead to civil war by April 15. Other alarms came from a less intellectual but intensely French quarter. In Paris, 5,000 midinettes, shivering in thin coats, protested against their dismissals by Paris dress houses (which were suffering a slump despite the New Look). Cried clothing union leader Alice Brisset: "Hardy measures are needed...
...decided to build a goathouse first. But Mrs. Chamberlain reckoned without the small, slow grinding of the bureaucratic mills. Her application for a timber license bounced back & forth for 13 weeks, among six different government agencies. Baffled and angry, Mrs. Chamberlain wrote to the newspapers. Last week her story rang across all England...
...American Here." The Greek colonel shook his head, put an arm around the major's shoulder. "Look," he said, "why don't you stay here tonight and have dinner with us? We can sing songs and drink and have a nice party." No? The colonel sighed and rang up his intelligence officer. Gasping protests came clearly through the receiver. The colonel cut them off: "No, no, no! Tomorrow will not do. You don't realize what's happening. I've got the American here. All he keeps saying is 'Now!' Listen...