Word: ringe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...political problems. One of them was created by Douglas MacArthur's position. As a General of the Army on active service, he was screened by Army regulations, which forbid his making political speeches or engaging in any political activity. His gold-braided cap was not actually in the ring at all, but at its edge. He could pull it out at any time-as he had, in effect, after running second to Tom Dewey in Wisconsin's 1944 primary. Even more important was the fact that General MacArthur has not been in the U.S. for almost eleven years...
...young fellow to drop out of the running in a hurry. There had been a lot of talk about a young hopeful named Coley Wallace, 20-year-old Golden Glover who looks a little like Joe Louis. But Wallace didn't look like a young Louis in the ring last week (while winning the eastern Golden Gloves championship), and talk about him hushed...
Hail to the victors valiant! Hail to the conq'ring heroes...
...prizes include: a house, a home freezer, an automobile and trailer, a Persian lamb coat, a diamond ring, a diamond watch, a trip to Manhattan, the Vermont mountains and Bermuda, a ten-piece wardrobe, an electric refrigerator, a pantryful of canned goods, a set of fine china and another of flat silverware, a coffee brewer, a carpet, a vacuum cleaner, an electric washing machine, a ten-piece mahogany bedroom set, a gas stove, an electric stove, a fitted calf handbag, an automatic ironer, four end tables, a kolinsky scarf, a pressure cooker, six pieces of leather luggage, a year...
...Ends of the Earth. T-Man Dick Powell hot after a Japanese opium ring (TIME, March...