Word: ringe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Abraham courted Zahava for three months over a ten-foot fence of barbed wire. In August 1947, the camp rabbi performed the marriage ceremony according to the Jewish ritual. The American Joint Distribution Committee provided a metal ring for the bride...
...morning last week FBI agents knocked at the apartment door. When they left, they took Mr. Lewis with them. A few hours later the FBI announced that Mr. Lewis was the long-sought Sam Carr, a top agent of the wartime Soviet spy ring in Canada. Carr was turned over to the U.S. Immigration Department to await a deportation hearing on Ellis Island. There he was joined by his wife, who had come down to the U.S. from Toronto last December without a visitor's permit, and had stayed beyond the 29-day limit. Mrs. Carr was asked...
Instead, Sam Carr, like a good Communist, went back on his promise and headed right into the spy ring operated by the Soviet Military Attaché Colonel Zabotin. Documents niched by Igor Gouzenko from Zabotin's files showed Carr's record. It detailed various payments of Moscow money to him, among them $3,000 to bribe an official who issued a false passport for a Russian agent in California. That bribe is one of the counts in the Mounties' warrants charging Carr with violating the Official Secrets Act and the Criminal Code. Last week Canada...
Cool-eyed Conchita Cintron, 26, the world's top woman bullfighter got the cold shoulder in Mexico. She flew into Mexico City, ran smack into opposition from the local bullfighters' union: their ring, where she had wrung oles from the crowds eight years ago, was now no place for a woman. Back in 1940, Peru's Conchita had airily remarked that Mexican bulls were passable, but not nearly fierce enough to suit her taste...
Menzel, who plans to expand the whole Climax set-up, has written several the-ories on the cause of the aurora and magnetic storms. This summer he proved that a ring nebula--a ring of bright gas surrounding a star--was actually composed of huge comets...