Word: ring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Soviet U.N. mission headquarters itself, 200 New York cops formed a ring around the block, barricaded the corners. In the street, police cars and motor bikes purred; cars loaded with weapons stood by, and the mounted police clip-clopped steadily about, while untold numbers of plainclothesmen mingled in the restive crowds on the perimeter. On Khrushchev's first night in town, knots of Hungarian and Polish refugees gathered with banners that screamed KHRUSHCHEV IS A MURDERER, KHRUSHCHEV, GO HOME, and handed out pamphlets with such arresting titles as Nikita, Scat, You Dirty Aggressor, You Bloodstained Butcher, You Bestial Executioner...
...pure idol worship, with a Platonic ring to it. In Aesthetics and History, B.B. further explains that an art object is life-enhancing because it shows us a visual, but also, more profoundly, a spiritual ideal towards which we cannot fail to strive. That is, if we can train ourselves to view such art "with sympathy and understanding...
Democratic attempts to ring false alarms are insincere, he said, since Democratic majorities in Congress have dominated legislation in the last six years. "If they are sincere, why didn't they do something about it?" Bush asked...
Where but at Harvard could a group call itself Tocsin? When spoken, the word carries a medicinal odor, rather than the intended echoes of a warning bell. Yet the group exists and, surprising for the "peace movement," its notes ring clear. Forged during the summer, it is preparing to sound the alarm about impending nuclear ruin...
Across the U.S., home-repair clubs retrieved a Pasadena woman's emerald ring that had been inadvertently flushed down the drain, exterminated night-chirping crickets that kept a Long Island insurance agent awake, sent a geologist to a Pacific homesite to estimate the danger of rockslides for a nervous homebuyer...