Word: ring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...role in two notorious acts of sabotage. First, General Johan van der Merwe confessed to giving orders in 1988 to blow up the Johannesburg headquarters of the South African Council of Churches, a blast that injured 23 people. He also admitted that he ordered his men to infiltrate a ring of antiapartheid activists and provide them with booby-trapped hand grenades, which exploded as soon as the pins were pulled. But then Van der Merwe offered an even more startling disclosure, turning to the subject of where his own orders came from. The bombing, he said, had been approved...
...crowds turning out for Dole were sparse. But for comfort he has in-house poll numbers that show him continuing to gain ground in California. So is this one last grab for the gold ring, as his campaign insists? Or is it a soberly calculated admission of defeat--and a final effort on behalf of the G.O.P. by a man who has devoted his life to his party? In a panic over the prospect of losing the Republican Congress, Republican National Committee chairman Haley Barbour and House Speaker Newt Gingrich have been pushing Dole toward California, where 52 House seats...
...market, it clouds the issue of who deserves more authority on the next go-round. So it was with the recent arrest of 46 illegal stock promoters in New York. The FBI, U.S. Attorney, Securities and Exchange Commission and National Association of Securities Dealers collaborated to knock out a ring of hustlers who use high-pressure sales tactics to dump inflated stocks on unwary investors. Who was in charge? "That's a hot potato," an official confides...
...signed with the Boston Braves. Six years later, Frank was in the World Series with the Braves. Because their mother and father had separated, Frank, nine years older than Joe, became a surrogate father, paying Joe's way through St. Francis Prep and giving him his 1958 World Series ring. The ring, unfortunately, was stolen from a New York hotel room in 1971, the year Joe hit .363 for the St. Louis Cardinals...
...sophomores, should disdain to conceal our views and aims. Our dominance can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let Drag Night never be the same again. Let the pre-med hotline never ring. Let the upper-class students tremble at a sophomore revolution. We have nothing to lose but our homogeneity. We have a university...