Word: ring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rebuttal article written by Russell Schwartz, Director of the Peace Corps for Botswana, has an uncomfortably familiar ring to me. I heard it all before when I and my colleague, Elaine Derso ('64) resigned from the Peace Corps in Chile in January, 1965. There is little point to an extensive discussion of our reasons for resigning as Volunteers, since our action came in response to a situation in Chile strikingly similar to the one Paul Cowan has already described in his article as existing in Ecuador. Suffice it to say, in response to Russell Schwartz's allegation that "Paul Cowan...
...York ' City-3:05 the next morning in Viet Nam-when TIME'S direct Teletype from Saigon clacked out an ominous message: "Don't ring our receiver alarm bell. We must keep silent. Please do not call us. We will call...
Endless Supply. Testing the substance, the NASA scientists discovered that it was either a porphyrin, a ring molecule or a closely related chemical structure. Significantly, the porphyrin ring molecule with a magnesium atom in the center is chlorophyll...
...would be nice to give his only daughter a christening present-a painting, say, like the 16th century Madonna and Child by Lucas Cranach. And since Daddy was Nazi Reichsmarshal Hermann Goring, the city of Cologne thought it prudent to turn over the priceless painting. Daughter Edda Göring, now 29, has more or less owned the Madonna ever since, though last week she lost another round in her court fight to keep from returning the painting. Edda's lawyers have already slipped and dodged for 18 years, and she has two appeals left...
...West Indies, rum manufacturers in Massachusetts (there were 63 distilleries there in 1750), coffee growers in Brazil, to say nothing of owners of cotton, rice and tobacco plantations in the South-all were dependent, directly or indirectly, upon the slave trade. All their quoted comments, says the disapproving author, ring with "the eternal voice of the middleman, the levelheaded, grating speech of money...