Word: rangely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...faultlessly dressed, inscrutable Otosugi Saito, talking pleasantries. From the corridor, aides and orderlies heard him laugh, a discreet, flat overtone to the mellow gurgling rumble of their chief, Major General Hein ter Poorten. Then, as an aide in gleaming white duck showed Saito-san from the room the phone rang...
...barrel-chested, wing-collared young Yale instructor glared sternly at his pupils and in a voice that rang like an anvil began to lecture to his first class. He was William Graham Sumner. "He broke upon us," said a pupil, "like a cold spring in the desert." For 37 years Yale students were stimulated by that cold spring. When Sumner retired in 1909, an equally remarkable teacher took his chair. Last week Sumner's barrel-chested, stern-eyed successor, Professor Albert Galloway Keller, faced his last class...
...expected, however, did not occur. Allowing their opponents only three first places out of a possible nine, the Ulenmen rang up a 53 to 22 win and, incidentally, their third straight victory in the current campaign. Prior to the Varsity meet, the Yardlings defeated the Brown Freshmen by the equally decisive margin...
...Vive De Gaulle!" Like a voice in a dream the cry rang up the Quai de la Roncière. Sleepy St. Pierrais tumbled out of their steep-roofed plaster houses: women in shawls and white petticoats, fishermen pulling striped shirts over their tousled heads, hastily tying their crimson sashes. Geese honked. Dogs barked. From windows suddenly fluttered homemade De Gaulle flags...
Like the old stage manager he is, Mr. Roosevelt took one look and rang down the curtain. In a grateful curtain speech he accepted the three points as a formula for labor peace-completely ignoring Point No. 4-said the show was over, and asked the audience to go out quietly...