Word: ring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most of the free world is reconciled to U.S. testing, the announcement of the powerful space tests caused a flurry among European scientists. A widely circulated press report predicted that the explosions in space would cause auroras visible over much of the earth and might even erase the inner ring of the Van Allen radiation belt (TIME, May 4, 1959). U.S. experts called the story overblown, but British Radio Astronomer Sir Bernard Lovell of Jodrell Bank observatory protested with characteristic vigor: "All scientists who are searching for basic understanding of the solar system will be filled with dismay...
...phone company is presently bending over backward to be nice in such in stances, but the DDD honeymoon may not last forever. In the not-too-distant time when any idly spun combination of seven numbers will ring somebody, some where, stern household telephone discipline will be needed, or Daddy's phone bills may be in seven figures...
SHUT UP, HE EXPLAINED (277 pp.)-A Ring Lardner Selection edited by Babette Rosmond and Henry Morgan-Scribner...
There were two Ring Lardners that counted-or, at any rate, a plump one and a half. There was the man whose best stories are superb revelations of character, the lord of vernacular, the laureate of dull lives, crass hopes and mean minds. The second Lardner that counted was a fellow of short nights and wild swoops and demented plunges, of parody and nonsense, of non sequiturs that on occasion proved knockout blows. Perhaps the most inspired of these-a daunted parent's reply to a child's bedeviling question-provided the title for Shut Up, He Explained...
Headed by Christopher A. Sims '62, the Tocsin group will ring doorbells and pass out literature to away Waterbury Democrats to send a pro-Kowalski slate of delegates to the state nominating convention in July...