Word: ring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Over the next few months, the police pieced together evidence of at least 35 murders (some said that the total exceeded 100), and a picture of a ruthless white-slave ring that had been trafficking in young girls for at least ten years. The girls, ranging in age from 14 to 25 and all from poor families, were lured by promises of jobs as maids in upper-class families. Then they were raped by a ring employee and hustled off to a training brothel in the farming town of San Francisco del Rincón. At least 2,000 girls...
...ominous cloud remained. There is a threat that the musician's union will call a strike on Nov. 1 if contract demands are not met. With no easy solution in sight, there is a very real possibility that the curtain may ring down on the Met before it is really...
...Four-Ring Cluster. The American is Harvard's Konrad Emil Bloch, 52, who came to biochemistry via chemical engineering. Early in his research Dr. Bloch learned that most of the cholesterol in the bodies of both animals and men comes not from cholesterol in food (though butterfat, egg yolks and meat fats contain much of it) but from built-in cholesterol factories. These factories are mainly in the liver, but many of the body's other cells can make some cholesterol. To discover how they do it, Dr. Bloch had to go back to the biochemical beginning...
Cholesterol is a steroid, one of a huge and diverse class of chemicals-including many fatty substances and most adrenal and sex hormones-having one thing in common: a four-ring cluster of carbon atoms, known as "the steroid nucleus." Other attached atoms give each steroid its distinctive character (see diagram). By growing rat-liver cells in the test tube, Dr. Bloch learned that they make cholesterol from the much simpler acetate ion (acetic acid minus a hydrogen ion). "My work since then," he says, "has been on the processes that the cell uses to manufacture the cholesterol molecule. This...
...historical novels. Gronow was a friend of Shelley's at Eton, and recalls how the fledgling poet, inspired by Homer's account of heroic single combats before Troy, took on a young baronet named Sir Thomas Styles in a fist fight. "Shelley stalked round the ring and spouted one of the defiant addresses usual with Homer's heroes: the young poet, being a first-rate classical scholar, actually delivered the speech in the original Greek." But stubby young Sir Thomas delivered "a heavy slogger" to Shelley's middle, and the poet turned tail...