Word: ring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Allen Dulles' deputy at CIA for nearly ten years, later headed a 360-man shop at the Pentagon as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, is now the State Department's Far Eastern expert. At the Pentagon, Bill occupied an office in the outermost "E" ring just down the hall from where his father once worked for Stimson. Now, in the State Department, Bill is a seasoned pro and is in a position to give Mac, the gifted amateur, sound advice on any sensitive subject. Bill is married to former Secretary of State Dean Acheson...
...exclude the possibility of some arrière pensée [ulterior motives]." Reported Le Monde: "The hidden intentions of the British can easily be guessed at. This was a fine opportunity to remind Europe of a period when France was the one who wouldn't play ring-around-the-rosy. The experts on perfidy are whispering that this was a tit-for-tat for a certain press conference [by De Gaulle in 1963] that closed the door of the Common Market against Albion...
...accordingly: "Hitler always says after each of his conquests, 'Now, no more. All is well.' But there has always been more, and there may be more still. Sir Robert Walpole said when the British people rejoiced because he had kept them out of war: 'Today they ring the bells. Tomorrow they will wring their hands...
...closed its banklike doors for a day to reduce price tags on the 172,415 baubles in its stores in Manhattan, Houston, San Francisco and Beverly Hills. A 128-carat, inch-wide un-mounted diamond will be reduced from $1,000,000 to $900,000; a $4.50 silver key ring will drop to $4. These cuts -and millions of others across the U.S.- were brought about by the repeal this week of most U.S. excise taxes and the reduction of others (see THE NATION). As the act went into effect with a sweep of the President...
...date men for money." No sooner had she hung up than a second mother called in to say, "And I thought I was the only one." Then came a third and a fourth parent and, finally, the chief of police himself. The next night, as he promised, the prostitution ring, including a 13-year-old, was broken up by the cops...