Word: rangely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...campaign." In the Democratic landslide, he lost. Brucker went back to law, became partner in a top Detroit law firm (Clark, Klein, Brucker and Waples) and chairman of the American Bar Association's committee on ethics. He never won office again, but as a party district leader dutifully rang doorbells in G.O.P. campaigns. Last year Defense Secretary Charlie Wilson called him to fill the Pentagon's top legal spot as general counsel. Brucker was questioned by Senator Joe McCarthy last March about the frayed old Peress case. When McCarthy, reaching for publicity, accused the President of creating...
...eardrum-rupturing explosion, then another, sent blinding clouds of smoke and dust billowing into the air. Jagged pieces of steel ripped into scores of bodies. Cries of pain and terror rang out. A young woman stared in silent dismay at her Weeding leg stump. As survivors scattered in panic, a few more navy planes roared in low over the plaza. Two more bombs burst. From upper windows of the nearby Navy Ministry, machine guns sprayed the Pink House...
...Black Rod! Black Rod!" rang the cry down Westminster's vaulted corridors. The Commons' heavy oak doors clashed shut ahead of the Queen's messenger as they had for 300 years at that cry, in a traditional assertion of independence dating from the time that Charles I invaded the House of Commons with soldiers in an attempt to arrest Hampden, Pym and three other members in 1642. Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, Lieut. General Sir Brian Horrocks-once one of Ike's corps commanders in World War II but now rigged up in kneebreeches-knocked...
...phone rang in West Germany's embassy in Paris. When the caller identified himself as from the Soviet embassy with an urgent note to deliver to the German ambassador, the ambassador's secretary thought it was a joke and almost hung up on the spot...
...remote-reading stethoscope was being taped over Barbara Graham's heart when a third call came at 10:43, delaying the execution. A new petition had been filed. Cried Barbara: "Why do they torture me? I was ready at 10 o'clock." At 11:12 the phone rang once more; the court had rejected the last plea. At 11:31 Barbara entered the chamber; at 11:34 the cyanide pellets were dropped in the acid. Barbara held her breath, tilted her head back as if praying; at 11:37½ she breathed and died, aged...