Word: ranges
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Largely due to a State House speech that rang more strikingly in millions of American ears than the far-off splashing of the Boston tea party, Gen. and Mrs. MacArthur received a tumultuous greeting from too to heel of Massachusetts...
There was polite applause. King Baudouin walked out as stiffly as he had come in, and climbed into a waiting Cadillac. As the royal car rolled through the capital's prosperous streets, cannon boomed and church bells rang out. Some 12,000 soldiers and police lined the streets to hold back the crowds craning for a look at the King they scarcely knew. Later, Baudouin appeared on the palace balcony to answer the cheers of 60,000 gathered below. For exactly 50 seconds, he extended an arm in acknowledgment. Then he went back inside. The crowd called and called...
...Opera rang out loud, clear and in English in the Rockies. The scene: the 73-year-old stone opera house in Central City, Colo., nugget-size (pop. 706) old mining town 40 miles west of Denver. The musical bill consisted of a pair of breezily staged one-acters: an English version of The Beautiful Galatea, by 19th Century Franz von ŚSuppeé, and Amelia Goes to the Ball, by today's Gian-Carlo (The Consul) Menotti...
...making every blow count, had slowed down his younger (30) rival. Walcott's sneak right-the one that caught Louis-opened a gash in Charles's lip. A left cut Charles under his right eye. Another right to the jaw staggered Charles just as the bell rang. Not until the sixth round did Walcott effectively use his new trick: a head-snapping left hook. Four of them, rapid-fire, stung Charles into the bout's first real excitement, an explosive, counterpunching flurry which had Challenger Walcott backing away...
...fateful day in a junior-year English class, the professor, William Lucius Graves, read aloud a student theme entitled, My Literary Enthusiasms, in which the dime novels of the day were wittily treated. Before he had a chance to announce the writer's name, the bell rang, and the students streamed out. Thurber found himself walking alongside Elliott Nugent, who was everything on the campus that Thurber was not-athlete, social success, best actor in the dramatic club, class president, idol of the coeds...