Word: ranging
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...Tigris 6,200 miles away. Now, taking notes as he listened to Abizaid, Rumsfeld showed no emotion. The two men discussed the possibility of having mistakenly nabbed a double and not Saddam himself--both had been down that road before. But this time Abizaid was virtually certain, and Rumsfeld rang off to telephone the President with the news. Rumsfeld's late-afternoon schedule was scrubbed, a hoped-for game of squash canceled. At a holiday party that night at his home, he gave no hint that he had the ace in the hole...
After years of clicking a link on the Lowell House website to hear their Russian bells clang, a delegation of monks from Moscow rang the bells in person for the first time this weekend...
Throughout my visit, cellphones rang, laughter echoed and eight-year-olds literally bounced off the walls. A baby crying is par for the course, but Friday’s baby was particularly recalcitrant, and traveled in an incredibly squeaky stroller. Above all else, people were talking. Shamelessly and openly they talked, they discussed, they delivered discourses. It was no cacophony, but it seemed strange. On a Saturday, with attendance tripled or quadrupled, the noise wouldn’t have been so bizarre—but on a Friday? Maybe, I thought, it was just an unfortunate fluke...
...parents and I were eating dinner when the cheerleaders rang the doorbell. It was the night before Thanksgiving; the pair of cheerleaders carried posterboard, crepe paper and a three-foot-tall gold mylar balloon shaped like the number seven. When I showed them upstairs to my little brother’s room their platform sneakers thumped delicately, like rubber mallets wielded by diffident elves...
Traylen produced 31 saves on the evening, but he was assisted by the number of shots that rang out from the perimeter, many of which missed the net entirely or were blocked by the defense. In total, the Crimson had 10 shots blocked by defenders over three periods and missed entirely with another 16 shots...