Word: ring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most of those Camp LeJeune boxers who worked under Redden took his words to heart even if they didn't go on to win championships. Ron DiNicola was still living boxing Wednesday night even if he wasn't in the ring himself. DiNicola said, "I think all the people who worked and sweated and bled with Leon fought for a little piece of the championship last night. Everyone in our small circle had the same aspirations but he was the only one who could achieve them. He carried the banner...
...that means that now there's real life in the heavyweight ring. All those hungry challengers will be eager to get Spinks, and he'll be the spunky, determined, Cinderella champ...
...crass young intern (Michael Douglas) who looks as if he will make a great golfer some day, keeps saying "I know, I know" and offering her Valium. He won't take his turn at cooking dinner either. Is he one of the nasties in the giblet-peddling ring? When the villains strap Bujold to the operating table for an appendectomy she needs like a hole in the abdomen, will she survive to put makeup on her scar? Finding out the answers is like having an inoculation: you get a little sick, but after that the odds are that...
...Second Ring of Power, Castaneda...
When Finch mounts the speakers platform, the populist ring in his voice is as clear as a bed. He first recounts his poor childhood on his daddy's farm and eulogizes the honesty and integrity of hard work. Then he urges all the "working men and women" of Mississippi to unite to fight for more and better-paying jobs and to help create a "better, fairer" Mississippi for all. The elocution is egregious, but the 'underlying egalitarian message of his orations is obvious...