Word: ring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...freshman game with Brown had a familiar ring, as the Brownie hurier walked the winning run in the ninth inning to give the Yardlings a 7-6 triumph. Also yesterday afternoon, the Harvard J.V. handed the M.I.T. freshmen a 7-1 defeat. Pitching Summary lp r er h bb so Lincoln 5 5 2 5 0 3 Munzel 1 0 0 1 0 0 Sersich (L) 2 1 1 2 0 1 McCandlish...
...such a proclivity for organizing is alien to impoverished Latin Americans--including those living in the fetid, disease-ridden slums that ring the major cities in Venezuela. These people have grown up under the patron system, dictatorships, and the Catholic Church and have always looked to someone higher up to get things done. By habit and disposition they are simply unable to organize projects to help themselves...
...traditions are equally important. Changes in customs and manners are most visible and affect people most immediately. But the U.S. will undoubtedly survive the frug and the cutout dress as it did the disappearance of the napkin ring and the morning coat. Far more significant is the break with intellectual and moral tradition, the questioning not of a particular authority but of the concept of authority itself. A nation needs a sense of history as much as it needs a sense of the future; it needs tradition not as a soporific, but as a means of measuring itself. Anthropologist Loren...
...merry swain, who laugh'd among the vales, And with your gay pipe made the mountains ring, Why leave your cot, your woods and thymy gales, And friends belov'd, for aught that wealth can bring...
...Hari was executed in 1917, a year before Ernest, then 18, got to Europe as an ambulance driver on the Italian front). On one occasion, Papa boasted drunkenly that he had sired a child by an African bride whom he had acquired on a safari (possibly true). What does ring completely true is Hemingway's comment in 1948 about Marlene Dietrich: "The thing about the Kraut and me is that we have been in love since 1934 . . . but we've never been to bed. Victims of unsynchronized passion...