Word: ring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...opened because the President had been deeply disfigured. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield fought through sobs to read a eulogy that, although well-meaning, was cruel in its emotion: "There was the sound of laughter; in a moment, it was no more. And so she took a ring from her finger and placed it in his hands...
Outside, Jackie Kennedy kissed the cardinal's ring, then entered the cathedral with Caroline and John. The little boy gazed in awe at the ceiling, said softly, as if to reassure himself, "This is a church." But once the service began, John-John was too fidgety to stay, and again he was taken...
...Crimson wrestling team's one-ring circus opened its 1963 run tonight with a performance that seemed to bode well for the future of the show. The matmen clobbered a visiting M.I.T. squad...
...named Marinus Van der Lubbe was be headed for his alleged part in the crime. Since the Reichstag fire gave Hitler a pretext to gain complete control of Germany, most historians have concluded that the fire was set by the Nazis themselves, possibly even by Hermann Göring in person...
Fifteen speeches are included in the section of the book entitled "The Crisis." They range in subject from the Congo to disarmament, to Red Chins, to Cubs. While without exception they ring with Stevenson's impeccable rhetoric, almost every speech is an infraction of the Ambassador's public philosophy. In some cases they go so far as to attack his own beliefs as expressed as a private citizen. For example, in opposing Red China's entry into the world body, he condemns their "aggressive violence" at length, and argues against those who maintain that membership in the U.N. would encourage...