Word: ringe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Seattle, Dean Rothrock took his five-year-old daughter for a walk with her aunt. The child was between them, holding both their hands, but it was a dark, rainy night, and neither saw the open manhole. The child fell through, tearing a ring from her father's finger. Eight miles away, where the sewer empties into Puget Sound, her body was found in the sand...
...there are some ominously familiar voices raised against him. One rival candidate is Congressman Jimmy Morrison (no kin to Chep), who stands for things with a demagogic Huey Longish ring: more four-lane highways, $50-a-month pensions for the old folks. Another candidate is Earl Long himself, who was shouting in a gravel voice that nobody never proved nothin' crooked about Earl K. Long, the White Knight of the poor folks. He will probably finish close enough to Jones in the primaries to require a runoff...
...accused of being a collaborationist because he had sold Hermann Göring a priceless Vermeer. Van Meegeren pleaded guilty to forging the picture: instead of trafficking with the enemy, he had tricked him. And Göring, had been only one of his victims : Van Meegeren confessed that six "Vermeers" and several "Pieter de Hoochs" lining the Palace of Justice walls were really the work of his hand. Last week Forger Van Meegeren was sentenced to a year in jail...
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...fall of 1931, L. J. Conley, Harvard's head boxing coach, died and Lamar came to Cambridge to take his place. He coached the Varsity teams until boxing was abandoned as an intercollegiate sport in 1937, and since then has been teaching ring principles to Harvard pugilists...