Word: rangely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Majesty's government was engaged in some dishonorable activity is completely untrue, and I must emphatically deny it." Liberal Leader Joseph Grimond, still not satisfied, demanded to know whether the government could categorically deny that it had had information that Israel was going to attack Egypt. The House rang with cries of "Answer, answer." Finally Eden got to his feet. "There was not foreknowledge that Israel would attack Egypt-there was not," he insisted. "But there was something else. There was-we knew it perfectly well-a risk of it, and in the event of risk of it, certain...
...brilliant gold beeches, scarlet oaks and russet maples splashed their color against a green pine background as Virginia last week gloried in its autumn. Near Warrenton, the horn rang clear in the crisp dawn to summon pink-coated hunters. In the sandy jack-pine country near the North Carolina line, warehouses bulged with the Bright Tobacco that enriched Virginia by $84 million last year. In southside Virginia, below Richmond, jets of ocher-colored steam spewed from National Aniline's new, modernistic chemical plant. In Williamsburg, tourists moved quietly, reverently, through shrines that attest to Virginia's historic leadership...
...clear and bright as a glockenspiel in a football band. She was nervous at first-her vibrato was fast as a canary's, and she heaved her pretty bosom with each breath, which is not regarded good form-but she stopped the show several times, and the bravos rang out like pistol shots when she finished...
Preoccupied with efforts to keep his Army happy and stay in power, Rojas paid less and less attention to efficient government. He bolstered his own position by placing inexperienced Army officers in high government posts instead of financial and commercial experts. Scandals were frequent, and Bogota rang with stories of corruption in high places. Nevertheless, coffee prices were at a record high, the country was enjoying an unprecedented buying spree, and prosperous coffee growers and textile merchants agreed that the Rojas government was "better than before...
...election campaign moved quietly and placidly towards its climax this week the U.S. was suddenly confronted by the boldest, blackest headlines since Korea. Beneath three days of fog that sifted lightly across the Danube, the Communist satellite capital of Budapest (pop. 1,750,000) rang to the classic shouts of "Freedom of Speech!" "Freedom of Religion!" The answer, audible from the Baltic to the South China Sea, was the machine-gun fire of Communist T-54 tanks. Then, out of a deep night along the Israel-Egypt border, there sprang forth two spearheads of a regular Israeli army advance, lunging...