Word: ring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...four-inch piece of straw flew like a steel-tipped arrow and imbedded itself in a woman's neck. In Strongsville, Ohio, near Cleveland, a baby was sucked out of a house and hurled to its death-still in its bassinet. The same vacuum pressure pulled the wedding ring from the finger of the baby's mother...
Smoldering Stew. Last week a chambermaid in the Hotel Novelty smelled something burning. Opening the door to a small room with yellowing photographs tacked to the walls, she saw an unmade bed and an overdone rabbit stew smoldering on a gas cooking ring. Slumped in a chair and dead of a heart attack lay 97-year-old La Belle Otero, her jet hair now grey, her teeth false, her wrinkled skin still highly rouged. A neighbor who had come in each afternoon to tidy up gave Caroline Otero's epitaph: "She was constantly talking about her past...
Nowhere is change more dramatically apparent than in Spain's economy, which has boomed beyond the wildest dreams of the young reformers who sit beside Franco in Spain's Cabinet. New factories, skyscrapers and apartment buildings are popping up like handkerchiefs in a bull ring; nearly 200 American companies have set up offices in Spain, and overall foreign investment is pouring in at the rate of nearly $300 million a year. Fourteen million tourists entered Spain last year, and a staggering 16 million-more than one for every two Spaniards-are expected this year. In five years, treasury...
...recently exposed an undergraduate counterfeiting ring so successfully, that the Chief had promoted him to special plain-clothes man, a position created just for Biff. Now as he strolled along, disguised as Kevin Stoddard Heath '61, a third year graduate student in English, he eyed everything around him as if it might bear close inspection...
...course. It was fought on a site of the canny Scot's selection: a dry field bordered on two sides by sodden carseland. The front was so narrow that the English could not bring up archers or engines. It was the English cavalry against the Scottish schiltrom (shield ring), and for the first time in British history the schiltrom carried...