Word: ring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leaders who actually stood trial, eleven were sentenced to hang, seven received prison sentences, three were acquitted. Condemned to death, Reich Marshal Hermann Göring committed suicide by poison in his prison cell. Ten Nazis-including Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, Armed Forces Chief Wilhelm Keitel, and General Alfred Jodl, Hitler's chief military adviser-died on the gallows...
Twenty-six hours later, two patrolmen answered a call from a sleazy North Side hotel reporting that a Puerto Rican prostitute had told the manager: "There's a man up there with a gun." The roomer identified himself as Richard Speck, a name that did not yet ring a bell with the officers, though they had a tentative physical description of the suspect. As for the gun, he said that it belonged to the girl. Though most policemen would instinctively detain a man in such circumstances, the cops merely confiscated the weapon-a .22-cal. revolver (the murderer...
...name-middle age. Yet it is that one-fifth of the nation between the ages of 40 and 60 (42,800,000) who occupy the seats of power, foot the bills, and make the decisions that profoundly affect how the other four-fifths live. The halls of Congress ring with the medicares of the aged. Every anatomical twitch or psychedelic escapade of the teen-agers scares up worry wart headlines. Ironically, even the revolt of the teen-aged is subsidized by middle-agers. Those tiny secessionist principalities of the disdainful young that span the U.S. from the La Jolla, Calif...
...precious few, he's decided to make the most of them by marrying Mia Farrow, 21, Maureen O'Suilivan's actress daughter. After keeping steady company with her for more than a year, Frankie took her home to mother and gave her a ding-a-ding ring, nine carats heavy and worth something like $100,000. Said Old Pal Joey Bishop: "It looked like Plymouth Rock had been lowered onto Columbus Circle...
...important critics have belatedly reviewed Life Against Death, and the London Observer has placed it on two outstanding-books lists. Now, with more than 50,000 copies in print, it ranks alongside David Riesman's The Lonely Crowd and J.R.R. Tolkien's The Fellowship of the Ring as one of the underground books that undergraduates feel they must read to be with...