Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...International Amphitheater in the heart of Chicago's stockyards, last week, a scarlet-coated trumpeter tooted his horn. A hush fell over a sellout crowd of 11,000. Fourteen high-stepping horses trotted into the ring, their tails arched high,*their riders sitting with ramrod-straight backs. At stake was the championship for five-gaited horses...
Connoisseur Gaits. In the ring, the ringmaster called for a walk and Wing slowed down, though still strutting. Teater gave him a thank-you tap on the head. At the call for the "slow gait," Teater gave a twist on the snaffle rein and Wing moved into a gliding, four-beat amble...
...diamond ring would be nice too" according to several of the women around Harvard, but they also like pins, fancy handkerchiefs, bracelets and chokers. A girl who is amply supplied with these decorations can use a jewelry case, and would be particularly impressed with one with a sliding drawer and initials...
Their accuser, Whittaker Chambers, quietly went back over his old story: that Alger Hiss, a trusted government official facing trial for the second time on a charge of perjury, had fed secret documents into ex-Communist Courier Chambers' spy ring. But to the familiar mosaic he added a few sharp, new fragments...
...Hiss career remained under the watchful eye of the Red apparatus. In 1936 Hiss had the opportunity to transfer from the Justice to the State Department. Said Chambers: "He [Hiss] wanted to know the party's wishes on that ... I discussed the problem with J. Peters [Soviet spy-ring master] and told Mr. Hiss J. Peters wished him to enter the State Department...