Word: ring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Boss Allen Dulles fended Mc Carthy off, and Bill Bundy served as his deputy for nearly ten years. In 1961, Kennedy moved him to the Pentagon, and his new office in the outermost "E" ring is just down the hall from where his father used to operate under Stimson...
...spent his years tracking down moonshiners in Alberta, battling the violent hunger marches of the Depression '30s and ferreting out Communist spies in the '40s. When Russian Cipher Clerk Igor Gouzenko walked out of the Soviet embassy in 1945 ready to tell about the Red spy ring, McClellan was the man who took him into protective custody. The Mounties cracked the ring wide open; Gouzenko and his family still live "somewhere in Canada," still under Mountie protection...
...screws driven through each end into the bone. The smaller bone was left to rejoin itself. Vascular surgeons joined the major blood vessels, not by stitching, which even the traditionally patient Chinese admit is difficult, but by turning one end up into a cuff over a tiny plastic ring and pulling the other end over the slight bulge...
Died. Msgr. Hugh O'Flaherty, 65, Irish Roman Catholic priest and Vatican civil service official who, while delivering Red Cross parcels to prisoner-of-war camps in Italy during World War II, set up an escape ring that smuggled hundreds of U.S. and British soldiers to freedom by disguising them as nuns, monks, bus drivers and garbage collectors, for which he won a chestful of Allied medals and the unofficial title 'Pimpernel of the Vatican"; of a heart attack; in Cahirciveen, Ireland...
Sportswriters called him "the ballplayer Ring Lardner missed," and when Yogi was beaned in Detroit, the papers reported: "Xray pictures of Berra's head showed nothing." Rival players hung by one hand from the dugout roof when he came to bat, scratching their armpits with the other. "Hey, Yog," they yelled. "You still sleeping in trees?" One opposing catcher used to watch Yogi step into the batting cage, then bellow: "Quick, men! Shut the gate! You got him." TV even got into the act with a "Yogi Bear" cartoon series about an animal that walks like...