Word: ranging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Later, while the thieves were in the room, Wessels' telephone rang. Neumann went to answer it and surprised the youths, who then seized their loot and rushed past him, into a waiting car. They threw the records from the car window to avoid detection, but were soon picked up by Cambridge Patrolman David F. Cotter for "acting suspiciously...
...since been topped only by Second Baseman Rogers Hornsby of the St. Louis Cardinals, who hit .424 in 1924); in Daytona Beach, Fla. Playing for the Philadelphia Nationals, the Philadelphia Athletics and Cleveland, the Big Frenchman (6 ft. 1 in., 195 Ibs.) was an unmatchably graceful fielder, rang up a .339 lifetime batting average, was one of eight men in baseball history to connect for more than 3,000 hits...
...experienced observers had such clear eyes. Glowed the Chicago Tribune's Dubois, who could not overcome his Castro partisanship and his relief at the fall of the tyrant, Batista: "I have just had the first exclusive post-victory interview with Fidel Castro. His words rang with a tone of unmistakable sincerity, and were pronounced with the idealism that produced his outstanding leadership...
...reason: strong opposition. "We are being outvoted, outtalked, outspent and outworked by an alert, disciplined, politically astute opposition." Another reason, which rang jarringly in conservative ears: "We must get rid of the right-to-work tag pinned on our coattails." Still another: the Democrat-labor alliance. "Organized labor was able to put in one state [Maine] in behalf of opposition candidates more field men than the Republican Party had available nationally...
When his turn came, Despaigne was allowed to write a note to his son, smoke a final cigarette and-to show his scorn and nerve-to shout the order for his own execution. On a hill overlooking the range, a crowd gathered and cheered as each volley rang out. "Kill them, kill them," the spectators bellowed. As the death toll reached 52 and the pit was halfway full, one rebel muttered: "Get it over quickly. I have a pain in my soul...