Word: ring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hungary and Rumania. At Budapest 70 Communist ring leaders were apprehended as a precautionary measure on the eve of Anti-War Day. Rumania, combed by police, netted 75 arrests...
Major General Arturo de Echona and a ring of other potentates and sportsmen in Colombia's commercial centre, Barranquilla, stood keenly intent last week around a table covered with a red cloth. At the table Manhattan's marble champion Vinnie Sullivan, 13, who is making a South American tour, gave an exhibition of championship aggie-cracking...
...bull-breeder, a Madrid police official, a Matador (sword man), a Picador (lance man), a Banderillero (dart man), a member of the association of Bull-Fighting Impresarios, a sports writer, a veterinary surgeon, a season-ticket holder at the Madrid Plaza ring, all under the chairmanship of Madrid's Director of Public Safety, have been sitting as a high national committee to consider and meticulously represcribe the details of Spain's great national pastime, bull-killing...
Spain's most popular fighter is now Joaquin Rodriquez, nicknamed "Cagan- cho" (nightingale) because his father was a famed Flamenco singer. An obscure gypsy, Rodriquez entered the ring five years ago, left under a shower of miscellaneous objects (U. S. equivalent: pop bottles). Subsequent triumphs made him so popular that he is now trailed about the streets by mobs of adorers...
Primo Camera, 263 lb., hit a 218-lb. Omaha Negro called Bearcat Wright so hard in the fourth round that a rope broke as Wright flew out of the ring...