Word: ring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...didactic task completed, McNamara returned to his huge desk in the Pentagon's E Ring. He had applied the tidiest mind in Washington to clearing away the cobwebs of confusion about Cuba. And that, as far as he was concerned, was that...
...Smiling tenderly, the hero slips a ring on the finger of his bride (Dorian Gray), and the priest declares them man and wife. A jeweler in the wedding party steps forward with a diamond tiara. "Father,"' the groom says piously, "I have brought a little gift to the Virgin." The priest accepts it gratefully: "How good of you, my son." The jeweler walks briskly out of the church, clutching a fat check from the groom and confident that, even if it bounces, the priest will honorably render unto Caesar. But the instant he is out of sight, the "priest...
Sadanoyama lunged forward-and the great, grunting men locked in a spine-wrenching embrace. Faces scarlet from exertion, they stumbled toward the edge of the ring. Sadanoyama relentlessly bent Taiho backward. Just when he seemed beaten. Taiho twisted free, heaved Sada noyama bodily out of the ring, and collapsed, exhausted, on top of his conquered...
...local aborigine. In the good old days, 2,000 years ago, wrestlers fought to the death, cracking skulls and stomping ribs with ferocious abandon. Today's sumo heroes have a more limited objective-only to knock an opponent off his feet or force him outside a 15-ft. ring...
...challenger named Sadanoyama, the two contestants began girding themselves in ritualistic preparation for combat. They rinsed their mouths with water to cleanse their souls, wiped their bulging bellies with paper towels to purify their bodies, stamped their feet to drive away evil spirits, scattered salt to purify the ring, and stretched out their arms to show they had no concealed weapons. Then they squatted in the ring, knuckles on the ground, and glared malevolently at each other, not moving a well-larded muscle...