Word: rangely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...like an ordinary line play. Suddenly, he broke away, and swept down the field behind beautiful blocking to the Bellboy two yard line. From there, Howie Gleason powered over through center for the score, and the Culliton to Hurley combination that has been clicking for extra points all year, rang the bell again...
...shed to work in, Ziolkowski borrowed a trailer and carted a 32-ton block of Tennessee marble onto the lawn in front of West Hartford's prim Town Hall. There, stripped to the waist, Sculptor Ziolkowski hacked and chiseled. He turned night into day with glaring floodlights, rang West Hartford's rural welkin with an electric drill. When the West Hartford clergy protested his working on the Sabbath, bushy-headed Ziolkowski snorted: "There seems to be no objection to golfing, tennis, motoring and sports in general on the Sabbath, so why the rumpus over the creation...
...words of that incurable optimist, Mr. Wilkins Micawber, rang in the ears of Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau last week, Mr. Morgenthau gave no sign. He had just floated the biggest peacetime loan in U.S. history-$1,504,425,000* to keep the Government going until Dec. 1. This loan brought the U.S. national debt to a record high...
...market place was full and peasants were still coming in, when the church bells rang the alarm for approaching airplanes. The towns-people who crowded the narrow streets knew the alarm meant that something horrible would follow, but many of them had never seen an airplane. They milled about in hopeless confusion till a Catholic priest took charge and told them to seek refuge in cellars and dugouts...
...fever,' said Father. . . . Herb shook his head. 'That's funny. He was having as good a time as anybody up there-and the first thing I knew he was gone.' I looked at Herb with admiration. ... He was so calm, so unperturbed. . . . The dinner bell rang. . . . 'Don't lag, Herb,' said [Father], 'and don't forget to wash your hands.' Herb listened at the door until he was sure Father was out of earshot, and then turned to me and said, 'Joe never knew what...