Word: ring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...patient negotiator whose efforts, perhaps more than anyone else's, had made a favorable cloture vote likely. With great deliberation Dirksen took off his tortoise-shell spectacles, revealing his sad, bloodhound eyes underlined by deep, dark pouches. In his massive left hand, its little finger flourishing a green jade ring, he held a twelve-page speech he had typed the night before on Senate stationery...
Humbug. For old-fashioned prizefighting, nothing beats the welterweights. Take Emile Griffith and Luis Rodriguez, both 146 Ibs., soaking wet. Griffith, a soft-spoken Virgin Islander, makes ladies' hats; Rodriguez, a Cuban refugee, sings Yiddish songs in nightclubs. But when they meet in the ring, as they did for the fourth time in Las Vegas last week, anything goes...
...rounds, Griffith and Rodriguez pummeled, wrestled, gouged and butted each other-amid bloodcurdling screams from Griffith's mother, who was sitting at ringside. In the third round, Referee Harry Krause penalized Rodriguez for punching below the belt, and Rodriguez' manager, Angelo Dundee, chased Krause clear across the ring. "What are you doing, Harry?" he yelled. "Remember the other guy is fouling, too!" How could he forget? In the clinches, Griffith raked Rodriguez' face with the laces of his glove. Luis retaliated by throwing uppercuts with the top of his head. Three times the two fighters kept slugging...
...Long warmed up by hurling the shot 65 ft. 3 in. on his first try, then uncorked a toss of 66 ft. 7¼ in. - a full ¾ in. over his own listed world record. But it went for naught: Fresno officials had unaccountably neglected to put a steel ring around the shotput circle as international rules require...
...Ring of Treason is a semi-documentary spy drama so set on realism that it takes one of Britain's most pedestrian episodes of peacetime espionage as a model, apparently to avoid drama, thrills or sex. The movie re-creates events leading to the 1961 conviction of Gordon Arnold Lonsdale, born Konon Trofimovich Molody, who was recently swapped back to the Russians in exchange for Greville Wynne. Still in a British prison for their association with Lonsdale are pub-crawling Chief Petty Officer Henry Houghton; his plump, middle-aged sweetheart Elizabeth Gee, who filched diagrams, manuals and Admiralty fleet...