Word: ring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...phone continues to ring and we inform the callers that we are sorry, but Dr. Kirk will not be in today, because Columbia is under new management. After noon, all the phones are cut off by the administration...
...climbed out at 6:30 a.m. while the police were forming a ring around the building. They had torn down the barricade; some chairs were wrecked; solid doors had been chopped through; they had completely screwed up a Xerox machine...
Since he moved into the Pentagon's E Ring two months ago, Defense Secretary Clark Clifford has spent most of his working hours learning the intricacies of his new job and supervising a broad review of the nation's Viet Nam effort. Last week, in his first public address since he joined the Cabinet, Clifford sounded sanguine enough. "We concluded," he told the annual Associated Press luncheon in Manhattan, "that the increased effectiveness of the South Vietnamese government and its fighting forces will now permit us to level off our effort-and in due time to begin...
...activists are students of the arts and humanities; they are apt to be bright but dreamy, and not yet committed to careers. Few are in the professional schools-business, engineering or medicine. Since many universities no longer demand compulsory attendance at lectures, they have the time to ring doorbells for a candidate or march for civil rights. Some sympathetic professors spur the activists on, grant them long periods off, extend deadlines for tests and theses...
...student bearing food broke through the conservatives after a scuffle, but was reportedly stopped by faculty members, who also ring the building which houses President Grayson Kirk's offices...