Word: rangely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...enticing Leland away from his church with a $75-a-month allowance and the promise of a $25,000 job in Mr. Werner's ironworks in Milwaukee (TIME, July 1). Mary's father filed a countersuit, the litigation was dropped, the wedding bells (Lutheran) rang...
Back in March, the Capitol rang with feverish cries for damn-the-deficits measures to end the recession. Texas' Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Baines Johnson, galloping into the leadership vacuum created by the White House's late-winter indecisions, loomed tall in the saddle at the head of the Democratic antirecession troops. The Capitol's leaderless Republicans milled about restively. Pundits predicted that a tax-cut epidemic would break out on Capitol Hill, and the Administration's foreign aid and reciprocal trade bills seemed doomed to hatcheting...
...jubilant crowd poured from the high school into Fontana Square, scarcely 50 yards from the U.S. embassy, greyclad Republican Guards on horseback charged with flashing sabers. Shots rang out; stones were flung; 50 people were injured. In Delgado's lusty campaigning last week. Portugal saw more mob violence and bloodshed than in all the previous 25 years of the paternal dictatorship of scholarly Premier Antonio de Oliveira Salazar...
...threatened to kill him. Recalls Père Pigalle with a laugh: "His women disappeared. He got it into his head that it was I who was taking them away. Imagine it-with my bald head and more than 70 years!" On another occasion two would-be assassins rang the priest's doorbell, pistols in hand. "I implored them: 'Not at this hour-you'll wake everybody up. Put your playthings away and come in if you like.' Finally, they each drank a bottle of wine and went to sleep on the table...
...years the screen has often been filled with the gun smoke of U.S.-made westerns, the shooting began earlier than usual one day last week. It was midmorning. and crowds milled through the busiest shopping area of Cyprus' third-largest city (pop. 21,100). Five pistol shots rang out and, just ten yards from the Hereon's box office, a man slumped to the sidewalk, wounded in face, chest, abdomen and hand. The gunman fired a sixth shot and disappeared among the shoppers. The victim, who died a short while later, was a man especially disliked by EOKA...