Word: ringe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communists were staggered when returns from rural districts showed votes piling up for opposition candidates. At the last minute local Front bosses had to reshuffle the rural count and ring up huge city majorities to make possible the Government landslide. Bucharest, Rumania's Jersey City, turned in over 425,000 for the Government partymen, 70,000 for the opposition...
...radio operators, ambulance drivers. Roedean itself was evacuated to Keswick, in the Lake District, while the Royal Navy took over its dormitories. The story goes that sailors billeted there almost wore out the buzzer system when they discovered neatly lettered signs: "If you want a mistress in the night, ring the bell...
...will be the old story of master against pupil this afternoon, and in this instance former pupil Howie Odell of Yale goes into the ring with a more than successful record against his old boss Dick Harlow...
High (11,500 ft.) in the Rockies near Climax, Colo., Dr. Roberts watches the sun through the thin, clean air and through Harvard's coronagraph, with its birefringent filter. He finds the sight a perpetual three-ring circus. From the dazzling surface of the sun (well screened by his gadgets), enormous gaseous solar "prominences" leap in graceful arcs at several hundred miles per second, driven by unknown forces (see cut). Little "spicules" (big enough to be seen at least 93 million miles away) jab up and fall back in four minutes. The ghostly corona waxes and wanes...
This declaration seemed to signal a truce in the bitter left-ring rumpus for the time being and enables the CIO to offer a solid front against industry in the wage battles of this winter...