Word: ranging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Costa Rican Embassy in Washington one night last week, the telephone rang. Sleek, young (24) First Secretary Alvaro Rossi answered...
...little after 7 p.m. when the phone rang. The voice on the other end was breathless: Could Miss Varnay get down to the Metropolitan Opera House at once? Helen Traubel was ill and the Met had to have a new Isolde right away. An hour later, Astrid Varnay, hastily bewigged and costumed, but with no spare time for even a few warm-up scales, was ready to go on stage...
Slowdown. The clock that keeps running in Arcaro's head really rang the bell four years ago in the Manhattan Handicap. Arcaro was on Devil Diver, a speed horse. Everybody, including the other jockeys, expected him to set a fast pace, and then collapse long before the mile and a half had been run. Arcaro knew how slow he was going; the others didn't and hung back too. The time for the first mile was incredibly slow. When Arcaro finally let Devil Diver run, he outsprinted the others, winning by 1½ lengths...
...night before the mid-term algebra exams. Teacher Margaret Jokiel, a pretty blonde of 24, went off to a concert, to relax before the big day. She left her mother alone in the parlor. A little after 9, the phone rang...
...night recently when the evenin's first "Altrocchi" rang out, three pitchers of water splashed down on the besieger's head. Soon, flares, firecrackers, wastebaskets full of water, and incredulous faces sprouted from over 50 nearby Lowell and Leverett windows...