Word: ring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Barbara would be mine, and wear my high school ring...
...from this unobtrusive vantage point, Clifford is counted one of the five most powerful men in Washington next to the President. With McNamara, Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas and Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare John Gardner, he formed part of the small, leakproof ring of Johnson's cronies, privy to the Government's most hermetic secrets and summoned to advise on questions of great moment...
...raising for the G.O.P. Last week California's Governor was off on his third cross-country speaking tour since September. From the Tulsa fairgrounds to Pittsburgh's Syria Mosque, crowds in four states gathered for a boffo blend of patter and polemic that made party cash registers ring-a-ding. However, the Reagan charisma has had less impact on the populace at large. According to the latest polls, his national popularity has dipped dramatically in the past three months: he now trails President Johnson 33% to 55% and Richard Nixon 22% to 65% in popularity...
...hrer Rudolf Hess. There, behind double rows of concrete walls and steel fences, Gehlen plotted some of the crucial undercover moves of the cold war. He recruited agents throughout Eastern Europe, even had a minister in the East German government in his employ, smashed a Czech-run spy ring in West Germany and provided the West with a realistic assessment of Soviet power that helped the U.S. to call Soviet bluffs over Berlin. The Central Intelligence Agency regarded Gehlen as one of its best investments...
Fitzwilly, the hero of this bit of family fodder, is a larcenous butler with a heart of pablum and a summa cum laude college degree. He keeps his daffy dowager boss (Edith Evans) in the chips by masterminding a ring of domestics who specialize in plundering New York department stores. When the old lady hires a pert new secretary (Barbara Feldon) with a suspicious nature, the wily Fitzwilly (Dick Van Dyke) has to scramble to bring off the big one-Gimbels on Christmas...