Word: rangely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Acting Secretary Louis Johnson was ready, willing and panting to ascend the vacant throne. One summer afternoon the telephone from the White House rang...
Like a shotgun blast in a cornfield, Harry Truman's crack about too many "Byrds in the Congress" set off indignant flappings and cawings over Capitol Hill. The old cry of "purge" rang through its tiled corridors. The President was annoyed that the crack got out; he hadn't meant his caller (A.V.C. Chairman Gil Harrison) to repeat it. At his news conference he refused to amplify the remark, declared that he was not interested in purges. The people, he said tartly, would take care of that...
...many parts, ranging from sheer farce to stark tragedy, drained Dickens' abounding vitality even more than his dependents drained his well-filled purse (he left nearly half a million dollars when he died). When he deliberately added to the strain by touring England and the U.S., reading and miming famous chapters of his novels, he knew that he was shortening his life. For a few years he enjoyed the actor's supreme privilege of seeing men & women rolling in the aisles or being carried out in terrified swoons. Meanwhile, at the reading desk...
...exultant Communist radio described the scene of the crossing: "The river rang with silvery notes of bugles and martial music . . . Boats by the thousands shuttled between the northern and southern banks . . . As 1,000 guns belched fire and smoke, the Yangtze waters were lit up in a lurid glare...
This week, partially retired and 62, he was tolling again. His latest book, Crisis in Education (Whittlesey House; $3), rang the changes on U.S. culture as Bell has seen it in a lifetime of observation. Whether readers agree with all of it or not, the book is unmistakably what Author Bell intended: "a challenge to American complacency...