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Word: rangely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...building presided over by Chargé d'Affaires Emeric Stoffel. To their left, in a chalet-type house near the street, was the chancellery, where lived Aurel Setu, nominally the chauffeur, but actually the secret police boss of the Communist legation. The leader of the masked men rang the bell at the chancellery. "Step inside," he said, when Madame Setu opened the door. They trussed Madame Setu in a chair, then began searching the place. In the cellar, as in all Communist secret police outposts, there was a small arsenal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWITZERLAND: The Siege at No. 5 | 2/28/1955 | See Source »

Next day after dinner, a group of townsmen attacked some gownsmen. Once again the bell of St. Martin's rang, and the bell of St. Mary's answered. Inns and taverns were pillaged, books were torn to shreds, some of the university halls were fired. The situation grew so serious that King Edward III himself intervened, and the city was placed under interdict. But by that time, 60 scholars had already been killed. Relations between town and gown have never been entirely amicable since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: For Whom the Bells Tolled | 2/21/1955 | See Source »

...Everything seems to be in fine shape," said Pacific Fleet Commander Admiral Felix Stump. "When the bell rings, we will be ready to go." This week the bell rang for the Chinese Nationalists to evacuate the Tachen Islands with the help of the U.S. Seventh Fleet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The Bell | 2/14/1955 | See Source »

...either, explained lamely: "I guess every person has a little larceny in his heart." Dial Tone. In Pacific Beach, Calif., telephone repairmen uncrossed the wires leading into the home of Robert J. Schroeder after Schroeder and his neighbors complained that every time his telephone rang it set off the air raid siren across the street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 31, 1955 | 1/31/1955 | See Source »

...said, "please permit me a personal note. Mrs. Eisenhower and I wish all of you . . . everywhere a very merry Christmas . . . God rest you; let nothing you dismay." The President flipped a switch, 2,100 lights winked on the nation's Christmas tree and a bell choir rang out O Come, All Ye Faithful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Merry Christmas | 12/27/1954 | See Source »

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