Word: rangingly
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...except the guards posted at the back and front gates were at rest in the barracks area of the concrete headquarters building, where troops were scattered across two floors. At about 6 p.m., just as the sun was setting, a series of shots rang out, sounding much closer than the occasional gunfire heard in the area. Then two huge booms shook the ground from the inside. The soldiers scrambled into their armor and reached for their weapons. On the first floor of the main building, Wallace saw the door to the room he shared with Millican and three other soldiers...
...think that when you have Commencement our bells ring, and for their entire history, for 400 years, they rang in Russia and then ended up at Harvard, with students, at a university—all this is very touching," said Elena, 49, a school teacher...
...visitor to Hanoi University earlier this month might have been forgiven for thinking the tree-shaded campus was preparing for a riot. Moments after a school bell rang out, a tall metal barricade was rolled into place. Dozens of police and uniformed security officials assumed positions at the entrances to the campus, and students were searched for cell phones and other forbidden objects as they entered their classrooms...
...Black Power chapter. "It was like something out of the movies," he says. "I heard they were all down at this park and when I got there it sounded like a football match." More than 100 youths had been summoned by phone text messages. "They were already fighting. I rang the police and the police didn't turn up. There was one police officer, and he was 100 m away from the fight." Three weeks later the violence flared again. This time, Paea says, "the police turned up with the riot squad, the guns and the whole works...
...pair of shorts from the Gap on the basis of the styling of the label. (Plato's won't take anything more than a year old.) Owned by the Minneapolis-based Winmark Corp., Plato's has opened some 200 franchises since 1999. The company rang up more than $100 million in sales in 2006 and plans to open 35 additional stores this year. Winmark collects a 4% royalty fee from each store; a franchise costs $225,000 on average. The formula seems to work. Steve Johnson, who owns three stores in the Midwest, says he grosses...