Word: ring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cambridge School Superintendent John M. Tobin submitted a proposal to the School Committee on Oct. 19 providing for an "open enrollment" policy. This plan, which will have to wait for approval until the next committee meeting on Nov. 9, would allow for the transfer ring of white children into, and non-white children out of the school, at their parents' request...
...most modern and flexible theater that they could conceive of, including an automated console programmed to control the saturation lighting for a three-hour show, a stage containing a motorized turntable, 36 ft. in diameter, large enough to handle an entire production, with an independently rotating 5-ft. outer ring left over. And tucked away overhead was space for the sets of five shows...
After 18 years in the ring and 129 pro fights, Joey Giardello is too much of a pragmatist to rue what might have been. He has, after all, a wife, four children and a $35,000 home in Cherry Hill, N.J. How many fighters can claim that? But Joey was already an old man of 33 before he got a crack at the world middleweight championship. He was 35 when he lost it at Madison Square Garden last week to the same man he took it away from: Nigeria's Dick Tiger. That did not really matter either. What...
...also his last-as a fighter. In the second round, Tiger ripped a left hook to Joey's jaw that knocked him halfway across the ring. Twice more, in the seventh and twelfth rounds, Joey was rocked by solid punches to the head. Legs rubbery, hair matted with sweat, blood trickling down his lumpy face from cuts over both eyes, he stubbornly fought on, even though his cause was hopeless. After 15 rounds, the judges' verdict was unanimous for Tiger. Giardello had no excuses. "I wanted to show New York a good fight," he said, and announced that...
...fumble a cigarette between her teeth like a crazed nicotine addict and fire off machine-gun bursts of smoke. She can walk as if her body were an afterthought, or collapse in a chair like a punctured accordion. She can chew grammar like bubble gum, or make English ring with the elegance of George III's crystal...