Word: ring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...phone can ring at any hour of the day or night. There on the other end of the line is the unidentified voice, mouthing obscenities or threats. The receiver in most cases is a woman, often in a city apartment. Until now, her only way out of such repeated and nerve-shattering harassment has been to change the telephone number and have it unlisted. For, as she quickly discovers, simply hanging up does not break the circuit, which is controlled by the caller. To apprehend him, the police tell the victim to keep the caller talking until they can trace...
...15th round, Chuvalo's eyes were slits; he was cut on the scalp and right eyebrow, and blood was trickling from his nose. But he was still standing-like "a stunted redwood," wrote New York Timesman Robert Lipsyte-rooted to the canvas of the ring...
Died. Erwin Piscator, 72, German director-producer and theatrical gadfly who in the 1920s made Berlin's theater ring with the cries of tortured humanity in such productions as the bitingly antiwar Good Soldier: Schweik (1928), fled the Nazis in 1933, but returned after the war to continue his contro versial themes, most notably in 1963, when he staged the world premiere in Berlin of The Deputy, Rolf Hochhuth's stinging indictment of Pope Pius XII's wartime attitude toward Jews; of a ruptured gall bladder; in Starnberg, Bavaria...
...popular novel and at least eight nonfiction works have been written about the spy ring that Sorge operated in Japan between 1933 and 1941. This book, however, is the definitive one. Oxford Dons Deakin and Storry, who spent three years interviewing officials and studying a massive file of court transcripts and official documents, turned out a sound, scholarly underpinning for the story of Sorge's espionage activities...
...relevance for most Englishmen -the act of calling on Rome demonstrated courage and initiative. Paul summed up the encounter as "one of friendship and a move toward union, if not yet a meeting of perfect unity." As the prelates parted, Paul slipped off his diamond-and-emerald episcopal ring and gave it to Michael Ramsey...