Word: ring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Looking frail and drawn much of the time, he seemed dwarfed by his entourage, which included the ever-present cardiologist, a ring of Israeli security agents and swarms of U.S. Secret Service men and police who manned sniper posts, rode shotgun in helicopters and stood at alert on fireboats. Yet the Premier's presence transcended all such hindrances. There was an incantatory tone to his cadenced, ritualistic speeches; when he spread his arms with open palms, the gesture seemed almost papal...
After a close inspection of the offerings, he declined to buy any. Bulgari officials later discovered that a $35,000 four-carat diamond and platinum ring was missing...
...Webster has been as busy as Americans would expect a new FBI director to be. As his knowledge of how the FBI functions deepens with time, his refutation of his "Charlie McCarthy" relationship with Adams-"I am the director of the FBI, and I am running it"-should increasingly ring true...
...KNOWS BETTER than anyone else, of course, what a university president's life is really like. But somehow, his wry comment doesn't quite ring true. For the past four years, at least, Bok has been spared student demonstrations of more than 300 or 400 people; the demonstration that gave rise to this particular incident drew more than 1000 students at its height, a clear sign that something out of the ordinary is going on. To imply, as Bok appears to have done, that Harvard students frequently ask the president to voice an opinion on any issue--or at least...
...Middleton's lines would draw nothing but laughter from modern audiences, even in the hands of brilliant performers. And at some moments the Leverett House group does give us a taste of sensational horror. De Flores returns to Beatrice after the murder and presents her with the severed ring-cum-finger, still bleeding in a white handkerchief. Both Terris and Montgomery play the tableau to the hilt, he leering, she screaming. Afterwards, the tension becomes oppressive as the walks slowly, step by step across the tiny stage towards her, blackmailing her to give in to his lust. If the actors...