Word: rangely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile the smoke from the fire began to fill all the corridors of the building. One alert but over-zealous student rang the alarm bell, and sent the lecture audiences pouring from every door; another called the fire department, which dutifully sent over three of its finest engines posthaste. As usual, the fire was out by the time the engines arrived. Damage: nothing but the wounded dignity of the firemen...
...evening a woman reported to police that two boys, who certainly didn't belong in the neighborhood, had been seen walking down the road with rifles over their shoulders. Three officers began investigating Echo Lake, thought they saw a light. As one started for the door a shot rang out. The officer jumped behind a tree, sent for reinforcements. Around 10 o'clock in the bright starlit night, a huge force-14 State troopers and local policemen, eleven civilians-had assembled to demand that the gunmen surrender. There was the classic defiant answer, less frightening than it would...
...order rang down the 68th's columns: "Turn 'em over!" Sergeant Pullen and his crew leaped into their tank. He ordered the driver out of his seat on the left side, took the controls himself. When a tank is buttoned up (i.e., the turret top and ports are closed) the driver's only vision is through two tiny (one-inch by four-inch) slits in the inch-thick armor. Peering through the main gun port, the tank commander in the turret actually guides the tank by varying foot signals to the driver (to start, a light kick...
...bells of Athens, which had long been silent, rang gladly one day last week. Klisura had been captured. This was the first important Greek accomplishment since the taking of Argirocastro on Dec. 9. The Italians had set up a defense sector hinged on Tepeleni and Klisura. Tepeleni blocked the road to the vital port of Valona, Klisura the road to Berat, northeast of Valona. Having broken through at Klisura, having driven the Italians from "naturally formidable" mountain positions, the Greeks pressed...
...when four bombs went off: signal that the Spanish-American War had begun. Said Jock: "In a few minutes the phone will ring and it'll be Tarbell telling me that I'm to cover the war." In a few minutes the phone rang. It was Tarbell telling him to cover...