Word: ring
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Inadmissible Evidence. His statement had the ring of truth to it. However, there is an even more compelling argument against his being the appointed executioner for any planned operation. Anyone with even a cursory insight into Jack Ruby's character could not help realizing that he was a violently unpredictable man. As the Warren Commission noted, "Ruby was regarded by most persons who knew him as moody and unstable-hardly one to have encouraged the confidence of persons involved in a sensitive conspiracy...
Although Hungarian history is studded with Rakóssys (the most celebrated led a revolt against Austria in the 18th century), this particular baron is fictional. Still, the character and the story have the ring of authenticity. Author Holland got her expertise at the Connecticut College for Women, where she specialized in the Hungarian Renaissance, but there is more in her book than research. As in her fine first novel, Firedrake (TIME, Feb. 18), Cecelia Holland writes a spare, masculine prose and applies the technique of the good U.S. western to her feudal lords. She avoids the stage-prop flummery...
Centuries after the poet composed his lyric tribute to the jail-breaking qualities of young love, his words ring with a far more literal truth. "There is really no secure prison" in all of Britain, concluded a government committee headed by former First Lord of the Admiralty Earl Mountbatten. And Britain's prison ers seem determined to prove Mountbatten right. In the two weeks since the report was published, convicts have been crashing out at an embarrassing clip. At least 29 have taken what the British press ironically calls "Christmas leave...
...passage describing how Jackie used petroleum jelly in order to slip her wedding ring on Jack's finger after he had been pronounced dead at Dallas' Parkland Hospital...
Thus, as Wieland interpreted the Ring cycle, Valhalla would be Wall Street, the heroes Siegfried and Siegmund self-sacrificing astronauts, the temptress Gutrune a mythological call girl, the god Wotan a wheeler-dealer politician, his wife Fricka everybody's nagging mother-in-law, and the spear-carrying Valkyries teen-age Beatle fans. Richard Wagner would have adored it, insisted Wieland. After all, no one despised the old Wagnerite purists more than Grandfather, who delighted in shocking admiring visitors by greeting them at the door on all fours and yapping like a fox terrier...