Word: rangely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From barrio to barrio, and on every city street corner, the name of Ramon Magsaysay rang across the Philippines last week. Election day was only four weeks off, and every presidential and congressional candidate was busily trying to identify himself with the late great President, who was killed in an airplane crash only seven months ago. "Keep faith with Magsaysay!" cried the Nacionalistas of President Carlos P. Garcia, the smooth, shrewd politician who succeeded to the presidency on Magsaysay's death. "Magsaysay was our guy; now Yulo is our Magsaysay," proclaimed the Liberals, ignoring the fact that Ramon Magsaysay...
...telephone rang, evidently a return call. "Well, hello," said Green. "As the sailor said to the girl, you got away before I wanted...
...Offal. When the conference chair man rang a bell to signal the end of his speech, Hailsham ebulliently seized it, crying: "Ring it much more loudly! Let it ring for victory!" As 4,000 Tories came to their feet cheering, he slowed it to a solemn pace, saying: "Toll it solemnly...
...achievement soon froze in the rigors of the cold war. The Red satellite was a milestone in history, a giant step toward the conquest of interplanetary space. But it was also a Communist achievement with serious implications for the West that the Communists themselves made clear. Cold-war propaganda rang in the Russian announcement: "The present generation will witness how the freed and conscious labor of the people of the new socialist society turns even the most daring of man's dreams into a reality...
...Last Word. When the class bell finally rang, the Negro students had not yet arrived. District Commander Walker, out of rugged Hill County, Texas (where it is said of the best people: "They kill their own snakes"), called the white pupils into the auditorium, explained his mission: "You have nothing to fear from my soldiers, and no one will interfere with your coming, going, or your peaceful pursuit of your studies . . . One last word about my soldiers. They are here because they have been ordered to be here. They are seasoned, well-trained soldiers, many of them combat veterans. Being...