Word: ring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...professional perfection, but the $5,850,000 in cash and jewelry turned them giddy, as well it might. The gang that seized the loot from a Lufthansa Airlines cargo facility at New York City's Kennedy International Airport last December quickly committed blunders unworthy of a teenage shoplifting ring. As a result, two of the gang were under arrest last week, one was murdered, another was presumed dead and the identity of the others was known to the FBI and New York police...
...familiar ring is giving way to the bleep, the buzz and the flash. All are part of the sound-and-light show emanating from the versatile new computer phones that are fast becoming an integral part of the increasingly automated, modern office landscape. The bookkeepers are happy because the new phones save money, but desperate cries of anguish are rising from office workers unable to cope with all that electronic wizardry. Their complaints: being disconnected in midsentence, having a third party break in on a conversation or, worse, not being able to get through at all. Their solution: make...
When Sara leaves high school, her mother presents official rules for the mating game: "First a watch, then an engagement ring, finally a wedding band. After marriage, a woman should get a mink stole, then a mink jacket, then a mink coat, then a house on Long Island." But by the time Sara passes step No. 3, the rules no longer apply...
...heaped on the American government by Mexican leadership have become almost an annual ritual, the United States has only recently begun to take the Mexican charges seriously. American harshness toward Mexico in public actually masks division within the Carter ad-powerful Mexico, whose threats now have a more ominous ring than they did five short years...
...made of plywood, Truscott's book bristles with engaging, sometimes horrific lore about the ordeal of West Point, circa 1968, its codes and disciplines. His description of Beast Barracks, the two sum mer months before plebe year that turn oafish high school graduates into passable cadets, has the ring of first-rate journal ism. Truscott possesses a subversively accurate ear for the intonations of officers...