Word: ring
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...came within a whisker of getting the business last year and believes he was misled into spending more money to maintain a bid he should have won on the merits. So why did Branson lose the lottery? "It's rather awkward for me to say why," says Branson, coyly. "Ring the editor of the Sun and ask him why he thinks I didn't win the lottery...
...sense of politics. He contributed generously to politicians in both parties, beginning in earnest in 1994 shortly before his son was to stand trial on conspiracy and cocaine-distribution charges. Prosecutors said the son deserved no quarter and expressed no remorse. Carlos was a key financier of a drug ring that transported about 800 lbs. of cocaine from L.A. to Minnesota in the early 1990s, and he came across as a blustery bully in tapes of wiretaps. He was sentenced to 15 years behind bars...
...more. The mood of these astronomical party poopers is to discard planets, not to find them; the children of tomorrow shall grow up to find all planets found, all lands mapped--all mysteries revealed as mundane facts. The new worlds we now seek ring not our own, but faint and distant suns--poor substitutes for Galileo's heirs...
Unfortunately, not every event will ring as true as those just mentioned. The Junior Parents Weekend Committee can't be expected to set up a perfect simulation. Thus you will want to forewarn your parents before they attend the following affairs--lest they falsely interpret the nature of the undergraduate experience...
...almost hear the pitch for Fisher's screenplay, currently in production and now fleshed out in his memoir: Dickens in Cleveland! The Color Purple, but true and male and set in the 1960s! The facts of his life have a movie-of-the-week ring: relentlessly abusive foster care; redemption through military service; and irrepressible intellect. But detailed accounting distinguishes the tale, and Fisher's searing, luminous portrait of his childhood transcends the familiar, as does his retroactive (and likely hard-won) tenderness toward the boy no one else loved...