Word: rangely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...love of land, the hatred of trespassers was strong and deep in the Russian soldier long before political commissars appeared to share and fan it, to shape and use it as a weapon. The tunes that Tsar Alexander's soldiers sang at Borodino, when they fought Napoleon, rang over the Red Army's lines last week. In War and Peace Leo Tolstoy's Andrey Bolkonsky said to Pierre: "Victory never can be, and never has been, the outcome of position, numbers and character of arms...
...words (in headlines) rang round the nation. They were in fact the most egregious example of unwarranted optimism that the U.S. had heard since Herbert Hoover said that recovery was just around the corner...
...been expected, Parliament voted down Sir John Wardlaw-Milne's politically-impossible motion of "no confidence in the central direction of the war" (TIME, July 6), 476-t00-25. Cheers rang out, and as the Prime Minister, still cocky, left the House he beamed and raised two fingers in a V-for-Victory salute...
...last May the opera nearly folded for good. The Association made a familiar, sad announcement: Cincinnati had failed to raise enough funds, Zoo opera would have to be abandoned. About 90 youngsters banded together, telephoned, rang doorbells, collected enough money to put the Zoo opera back on its feet...
Most of the registrants had little or no trouble with the complicated procedure, and when the bells rang 4 o'clock, there was no one left seated before the bright red blotters...