Word: rangely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Moments later, a telephone rang in Independence, Mo. Sprightly Miss Matilda Brown, 75, who had taught high-school English to Harry Truman and Charley Ross, answered it, heard an operator say: "The President of the United States is calling." Said the President: "You'll be glad to know that Charley Ross has agreed to work with me as press secretary...
...citizens wondered why there was a meat shortage. The welkin rang with name-calling and charges of avarice and Government bungling. The few facts that could be dug out of the row were startling. Some of them...
...Jima, Okinawa, the fire raids on Tokyo and Nagoya rang in Jap ears like an overture to defeat. Moscow's denunciation of the Russo-Japanese neutrality pact sounded like the very crack of doom...
...when sitting on his park bench in Washington, D.C., "in" to reporters. He would talk to only one: a man from Stars & Stripes. Corporal A. Victor Lasky and Baruch sat chatting together for a while, continued the conversation in Baruch's plush Claridge suite. When the phone rang (it was Churchill calling), Baruch, friend of the Prime Minister for 25 years, begged off for the moment. For Bernie Baruch had a point he wanted to get over to all G.I.s: quit worrying. After the war. there will be at least five to seven years' prosperity, "no matter what...
...With 18,253 admiring fans looking on, he piled up 21 field goals with his lazy lay-up shot, added eleven free throws for a total of 53-exactly as many as the whole opposing Rhode Island State team made. He smashed the National Invitation Tournament individual scoring record, rang up eight more points than had ever before been scored by a player in Madison Square Garden...