Word: rangely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...white phone rang on the desk of his Secretary of Commerce. The phone was Henry Wallace's direct line to the White House. Wallace picked it up, listened and raised a startled face. Then he said: "If that is your request, Mr. President, I will gladly resign...
When the tocsin rang, motley mobs formed in village squares. Headed by local labor leaders and squeaky village bands, they marched on what they called "invasion." In some cases, priests and acolytes with holy water trudged behind...
...that he was in one of the world's most musical lands. At that time, predominantly agrarian Bali (about half as large as Connecticut) had approximately 8,000 gamelans (native orchestras). More than 10% of the island's male citizens were musicians. Every night the little villages rang with the crash of cymbals and the brassy clang of gongs. (The five tones of the Balinese musical scale are represented by the syllables ding, dong, déng, doong and dang...
...time the gong rang at 3 p.m., the toll was terrific. The volume of sales was 2,900,000 shares, the highest since last January. Only 32 issues had advanced, while 548 had reached new lows for the year. Down went General Motors, U.S. Steel, Montgomery Ward and Union Pacific, along with the cats & dogs. Du Pont, bluest of blue chips, suffered the worst loss of all-17 points...
Immediately Communist cries of "gangster diplomacy" rang out. They were answered promptly by bull-tongued Admiral William F. Halsey, who snorted: "It's nobody's damn business where we go. We will go anywhere we please." Of course blustering "Bull" Halsey, whose diplomatic age is about seven and a half, was a bad boy to say it. But many an inhibited career diplomat and citizen were glad that...