Word: rangely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stores-A. & P., Kroger, Woolworth, Penney, etc.-hung out red, white & blue signs, began selling stamps like cigarets. The Cunningham Drug chain spent $1,600 on newspaper ads, nearly burst with patriotism when daily bond sales in its 125 Michigan stores hit $750. Kroger's eight Lansing stores rang up $80 daily. Last week 12,500 Michigan stores were selling bonds; by mid-September there...
...steps of an old brownstone house in lower Manhattan marched a businesslike group of ten men. One of them rang the bell. From inside the house, Dr. Nathaniel Collins took one look, leaped through a window, climbed over a fence, and scrambled into a neighbor's cellar. At the doctor's alarm, three women in nightgowns ran screaming into the hall, trying to find the fire escape. It was obvious to everybody that the house was raided...
...initial success was familiar: Ten miles here & there the first day, minor break-throughs at many points on the second. The initial taciturnity of the High Command rang true: "Operations are proceeding satisfactorily and according to plan." The initial preposterousness of such German "unofficial sources" as D.N.B. was the same as ever: it was claimed that 1,200 Russian planes were destroyed in the first two days...
Last Friday night the CBS listening station picked up a Paul Revere plug on the America Asks-Germany Answers broadcast, and a totally unsolicited testimonial went out on the ether. Axis-greased the announcer: "TIME and LIFE just rang me up a few seconds ago ... to get the story of Paul and a personal description. So don't fail to get the next issue of TIME and LIFE . . . The subscription rate is five dollars...
What happened in the pandemonium that followed will be hashed and rehashed for years to come. Many ringsiders claimed that Louis' final punch landed just after the bell. Baer's handlers, swarming all over the ring, demanded that Referee Donovan disqualify Louis. Instead, when the bell rang for the beginning of the seventh round and Baer's handlers refused to clear out or let their boy leave his corner (even if he could), Donovan disqualified Baer, awarded the fight to Louis...