Word: ring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...helpless clown with the split mustache. He is one of the richest men in Mexico, with an income of something like $350,000 a year, lives like a potentate in five homes attended by a staff of 18 servants. He flies his own DC-3, has a private bull ring, and collects the rent from three Mexico City office buildings. Yet Cantinflas never quite forgets the character he plays. He is the softest touch in Mexico, dispensing thick wads of bills to practically everyone who comes...
...words of the mercurial Moise had a familiar ring, and there were skeptics who suggested the pledge was false. "I'll believe it when I see it," said one diplomat in Elisabethville. "We know the man," shrugged Central Government Premier Cyrille Adoula in Leopoldville. "It is not the first time that Tshombe has declared himself ready to renounce his ambitions to found an independent state...
Hosannahs ring through the land and words of praise pour forth from hundreds of typewriters. General MacArthur, the conquerer of Japan, is hailed as the new hero in the sports world for his efforts in bringing a cease-fire in the vitriolic war between the Amateur Athletic Union and the National Collegate Athletic Association. But we can not join in the celebration, for MacArthur's truce is a tenuous and fragile arrangement imposed by the powers and prestige of the Presidency of the United States. It solves none of the basic issues. In fact, it ignores some major considerations...
...born Morros was contacted in 1943 by the Soviets, who used his father as a hostage; he pretended to turn Communist, for years endured snubs and abuse from his fellow citizens while quietly collecting information for the FBI that helped crack Convicted Traitor Jack Soble's atom spy ring. Said Morros after it was all over: "I had to do more realistic acting than any of the players I ever directed in Hollywood...
Last month another ring of prospering foreign traders was broken up in the Moslem Soviet Republic of Uzbekistan. Alas, a railroad policeman was on the platform of Tashkent's station when coins clinked at the feet of an elderly beggar. The cop discovered that the coins were solid gold and bore the face of Czar Nicholas...