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Word: ring (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Floor traders cheered and threw ticker tape when the opening bell clanged at 10 a.m. 50 years to the day after that ring signalled the start of a decade-long depression...

Author: By William E. Mckibben and James L. Tyson, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSONS | Title: Police Arrest 1002 Anti-Nuke Protesters At Wall St. Rally | 10/30/1979 | See Source »

...Tsung Dao Lee, who became a Nobel laureate at the precocious age of 31, wondered what he could do for the rest of his life. Indeed, as the time of the announcements approaches each fall, many contenders are so afflicted with Nobel fever they literally jump whenever their telephones ring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nobel Prizes: That Winning American Style | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

...Pirates Manager Chuck Tanner puts his value another way: "Having Willie Stargell on your ball club is like having a diamond ring on your finger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Pops Go the Pirates | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

...said last night he had been unaware of the month and day of the founding of the College. Claiming that he had nothing profound to say on the occasion, he added, "There's something about 343 that just doesn't ring my bell...

Author: By Nicholas D. Kristof, | Title: The College Reaches 343rd Birthday, But Nobody Celebrates--Or Even Knows | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

...church hierarchy, he praised American bishops for their doctrinal unity with the papacy. But their unity was anything but total. Grumbled one bishop: "He was harkening back to an orthodoxy that I thought we had passed by years ago." Said another: "I almost expected the bell to ring, telling us it was time to go to the next class...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Aftershock from a Papal Visit... | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

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