Word: ring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...light burden. Yet there is also a strange incongruity in the Christian touches which Camus tries to introduce. When Orpheus is counseled to trust to charity, as when he thanks the dead Eurydice for the new dawn, the unity of the myth is broken, and the interpolations do not ring true...
...dervish-like wife of the Attorney General had at the last minute daringly borrowed riding ensemble and steed to enter the conformation hunters competition. But after skimming seven barriers with surprisingly unrusty gait, she clipped the top pole of the next one, saw her outsized derby sail across the ring and finished out of the money. "Ethel," reassured her black-tied Husband Bobby, as five of their offspring giggled and fidgeted underfoot, "you did fine...
...world ("You won't find a stick of wood in our winery"); he pumps his wine by the millions of gallons through canvas hoses from tank to tank. He has taken to radio and television to advertise his wares with singing commercials ("Ripple-the wine with that ring-a-ding flavor . . . Oh-oh, that ring-a-ding taste!''; "Everybody gooes, for Gypsy...
...make 100 to 200 sketches of the stone, but from the very first he may have the feeling that the stone should be attached to or become something else. In the case of the piano, he may instantly think of hands; the hands in turn suggest a ring and the ring a marriage. In the end the painting turns out to be a huge ring with a piano floating through it-and the whole thing is called The Happy Hand...
...chain-a string of 294 highway stops stretching from Connecticut to California. The McDonald menu is rigidly limited: besides hamburgers and milk shakes, McDonald drive-ins offer only French fried potatoes (10?) and soft drinks (10? and 15?). But on this limited bill of fare, they expect to ring up sales of $60 million this year, enough to give McDonald's Corp. estimated pretax profits of more than $4,000,000. More McDonald outlets are popping up fast (new openings this week: Albuquerque, Atlanta, and Durham...