Word: rangely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These words, spoken by the disciples at Emmaus, rang in the mind of the Rev. Henry Francis Lyte. All his life long the gentle English Methodist had hoped to leave something behind him to testify to the glory of God. Though his books of poems* were well enough received, Lyte feared that they would not long survive him. In 1847, when he was 54, he felt that his life was almost over. Consumption and asthma, from which he had suffered for more than half his years, would not leave him much more time...
...police were hitting at everything in sight, charging in a mad swirl under the inadequate light of the moon and the pallid electric lamps. Groans and shouts rang in my ears. I managed to hide in a side street. Demonstrators wrenched up the iron rails around the tree where I had been standing and used them as swords or clubs; others managed to tear up the paving stones from the curb, and hurled them at the police, often missing and striking their own comrades...
...pulpit" stood Quotation Recorder Bill Poulden watching the clock. At 9:30, as the grain pits were opening in Chicago and Minneapolis, Poulden rang the gong and the pit burst into a bedlam of shouting and arm-waving...
...stripped the fields of southern Mexico, storms blocked main highways, drought left fields barren and brown. Last week he said: "One of my Cabinet ministers told me that all we needed to make the story of disaster complete was a fire in the Poza Rica oilfields. Pronto a phone rang. I picked it up. It was a man saying Well No. 6 at Poza Rica was afire." Last week, 13 days after it started, the Poza Rica fire was finally...
Next the village policeman arrived. He ordered Dennis not to interfere. Dennis telephoned the local office of the National Farmers' Union. At the other end of the line Secretary Gordon Smith shook his head and rang Area Secretary E. R. Benson for advice...