Word: ringe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stopped eating butter. After breakfast, he sits on in his small private dining room, running rapidly through the morning papers. When the gold Swiss watch tells him it is 8:50, he rises from the table and goes to his private study. He makes a point of ringing the bell on his desk announcing that audiences are beginning, at exactly one minute to 9. Punctually on the hour, the first Cardinal, after genuflecting to kiss the papal ring, is seated at the Pope's desk...
...evening's tag-end bout in Manhattan's smoky St. Nicholas Arena, and the fans were paying less attention to the two indifferent welterweights than to the referee. He was Benny Leonard, onetime great lightweight, now a paunchy 51 but still an agile man in the ring. Dancing out of the fighters' way in the first round, he suddenly toppled to the canvas. Tripping over his own feet was something new for Benny Leonard; the fans laughed...
They stopped laughing when Benny lay still. Minutes later, in the dressing room, the ring doctor pronounced him dead of coronary thrombosis...
...queued up at vaccination centers. At week's end, Mayor William O'Dwyer decided to "pour in every available piece of machinery and manpower to insure that every person in the city is vaccinated." He summoned the city's 175,000 wartime air-raid wardens to ring doorbells, set up free vaccination centers in police stations, health centers, hospitals...
This scheme still has a horrid ring to free-enterprising airmen. But some of those who had been fighting the Chosen Instrument a few years ago have privately come around to Patterson's and Trippe's way of thinking. There have not been enough converts to cause a significant shift in thinking about U.S. air policy. But Pat Patterson is sure that the U.S. will soon have to face the hard fact that, in an international air world peopled by monopolistic Chosen Instruments, the U.S. will have to use the same kind of weapon...