Word: ringe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...happy just to have the ice so firmly broken. Crowed one Spanish negotiator: "If I refuse to do business with a man simply because I don't like his face or manner, I would not change my mind even if he were to give me his diamond ring to back a deal. If I accept, the question of principle is settled...
...asked his mother to stay with him. Churchmen who visited them reported mother Mindszenty and her son to be calm and happy. Priests said that whenever government officials came to see the cardinal, he proudly held his hand higher & higher as they bent to kiss his ring...
...finest point of "Grand Illusion" is the way in which it captures that nebulous quality called "atmosphere." The Frenchmen speak French, the Germans speak German, and the Englishmen speak English; the landscape and the dismal PW camps couldn't be more authentic, and the snatches of old songs ring absolutely true. There are no heroes and no villains-only individuals caught in the hopeless drama of their generation and accepting their roles quite philosophically...
When a labman wants one of the dangerous rings, he takes it out of the cave on the end of a three-foot stick. Working carefully, with special tools, skilled mechanics fit the ring onto the piston of a test engine. After the engine has run for a few hours, its lubricating oil becomes radioactive because of "hot" iron rubbed off the ring...
...little as one-millionth of an ounce of metal can be detected in the oil. The scientists can tell by measuring the oil's radioactivity just how much the ring has worn-and therefore how efficient...