Word: ring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weighed nearly 300 Ibs.. and supplemented his meager income by boxing professionally for "a pound a round." At 18 he won the heavyweight championship of Rhodesia, lost it two years later (a low blow, claims Royboy) and quit the ring for good. After a two-year courtship in which he scared off all her other suitors with his fists, he finally married Elizabeth Henderson, a waitress in a Bulawayo cafe; today Liz Welensky bans politics from her home in Salisbury, banishes Sir Roy to the rose garden if he wants to talk shop with his political cronies...
...hair of Biff as he walked briskly under the connecting Houghton and libraries on the first day of his assignment as University under- man. A broad smile played his face, and he was whistling, everything seemed as sunny as the He had so successfully exposed undergraduate football ticket counting ring that the Chief had produced him to special plainclothes --a position created just for Biff. he strolled along disguised as third year graduate student in Kevin Stoddard Heath, but he everything around him as if it bear close inspection...
Having decided after long and clamorous struggle that "the day of the small, family-held corporation is gone." Vivien Kellems, 65, Connecticut's would-be Joan of Arc whose "voices" seem to ring like Ayn Rand, sold out her 34-year-old cable-grip works in Stonington. But her vendetta against the Internal Revenue Service would go on. Renouncing a 1961 pledge to stick to her "knitting by the fireside" (among other reasons: she can't knit). Liberty Belle Kellems menacingly warned the bureaucratic foe: "I'm just getting a second breath...
...Winston Churchill "the taproot of German might." From its oil refineries came one-third of the aviation gasoline, benzine and lubricants that kept Adolf Hitler's military machine running. To protect Ploesti from air at tack, the Germans had made it into a colossal land battleship. A ring of heavy antiaircraft guns formed a perimeter around the refineries that circled the city; lighter flak guns were concealed in hay stacks and groves, mounted on factories, bridges, water towers and church steeples on the target approaches. Crack Luftwaffe squadrons, aided by Rumanian and Bulgarian air force units, gave Ploesti...
...Bond as the best-known wearer of a shoulder holster in print. One explanation is Bond's universal expertise. His man-of-the-worldsmanship is so explicit that his fans' fantasies have a rich and varied diet to feed on. His cigarettes, with their three distinctive gold rings (a considerable security risk), are blended for him of a Balkan tobacco mixture by Morlands of Grosvenor Street. For breakfast: "The single egg in the dark blue egg cup with a gold ring round the top was boiled for three and a third minutes . . . Then there were two slices...