Word: ringe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...police that a tall stranger in a grey suit, fedora, pigskin gloves and dark glasses had tied her and her maid to a love seat and made off with her jewels. He first got Zsazsa out of bed in her black chiffon negligee, she said, and took the diamond ring, diamond bracelet and diamond necklace she had been sleeping in. Then he got the stuff off the night table, and the box full of diamond odds & ends on the floor under a chair. Zsazsa's estimate of the take: at least $500,000 worth. Police estimate...
...clock on a steaming hot morning in Madras, India, the bell of St. George's Cathedral began to ring. Into the crowded cathedral filed a crucifer and 14 men in white cotton robes. There, beneath the whirring, white blades of 30 electric fans, most of South India's several sects of Protestants united to form a new church...
...Book-of-the-Month Club advertises meritorious and meretricious books in the same loud tone of voice. To the club's 900,000 members, judgments like "powerful," "moving," "noble," "haunting" must by now have the same dull ring as "colossal" has for moviegoers. When the Mountain Fell, the club's co-choice for October, is promoted with all these words. But for the first time in many a month, they are not entirely irrelevant...
...received honorary degrees last spring. But because no evaluation had been made to customs officers (although no actual duty is required on art for exhibition), the 600-lb. statue had remained in the Kansas City customs office since last June, padded with 18 seat cushions from a Mexican bullfight ring. Last week a satisfactory price tag was finally attached and the statue released. The price: confidential, in the interests of presidential dignity...
...ring for the .30 target is ten inches in diameter, whereas the entire bull for the .22 is only the size of a quarter, and its ten-ring less than one-fifth of an inch in width...