Word: ring
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...evidently such a leader. The most frequent description of him is "an animal--he got people to work for him through the brute force of his personality." Under Ross, the organization was transformed from a small, tightly knit, party-oriented, penniless club into what observors call "a three ring circus." Party politics were placed second to building membership and raising money. Through a highly-successful speakers program Ross succeeded in doing both. But, according to one former executive the club became so dependent on Ross's personality that when his term was over he left a void that almost...
American politics has not witnessed such cozy conjugality since Texas' Ma and Pa Ferguson played ring-around-a-rosy with the Governor's mansion in Austin after Pa was impeached for peculation in 1917. Since the Alabama constitution forbids a Governor to succeed himself, George's support for Lurleen is based on the communal-property concept of public office. In his intended role as a kind of local Lord Bird, Wallace hopes to build support for another third-party presidential bid as states' rights candidate...
...quality of TV comedy leaves something to be desired, the quantity of written humor is pitifully small; most writers with a comic talent have been lured by the wide exposure and high pay of TV. No replacements have been found for such essayists as Benchley, Ring Lardner, Don Marquis. Frank Sullivan. There is no longer a Thurber, expressing in word and picture the uneasiness of modern life and the war between the sexes. "Funny men don't seem to write books these days," laments Russell Baker. Nightclub humor-what there is of it-is also in bad shape...
...King of the Cowboys! Out into center ring rode Roy Rogers, 53, handsomely astride a white circus-trained stallion. He should have stayed on Trigger. Appearing with the Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus in Greensboro, N.C., Roy got saddled with a spirited nag that objected to Western spurs. Or perhaps it was the way Roy sat the English saddle. The stallion reared and a crowd of 6,000 gasped as the King, like any dude, tumbled off, landing on his rump in the sawdust...
...other panelist complained that women didn't aspire to the supreme Court bench, and Mrs. Friedan straightened. Tapping the table with a forefinger bearing an enormous ring and straining to make us understand, she said, "Aspire. Exactly. Adults ask little boys what they want to be when they grow up. They ask little girls where they got that pretty dress...