Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They trained at Fort Sill. A chaplain-not Father Tiernan-undertook to give them a lecture on clean living. A rugged man, the chaplain stepped into a ring one night to make his point. He called for challengers. The boys of Battery D shoved Tommy Murphy into the ring. The chaplain held his finger in front of his own nose. "You try to hit it, son," he said. "I'll just show you what clean living and coordination do for you." With studied innocence, Tommy made a wild swing which the well coordinated chaplain easily ducked. "See?" said...
...Hollywood, Starlet Martha Vickers (The Big Sleep) announced that she was wearing Mickey Rooney's engagement ring, but they "haven't made any definite plans for the wedding." Mickey's divorce from wife No. 2, Betty Jane Rase, "Miss Birmingham of 1944" (No. 1 was Ava Gardner), becomes final in May; Martha's divorce from Pressagent A. C. Lyles becomes final in September...
That night, rain dampened the Negroes' fury, but next day the rioting broke out anew. Driven from Durban's center by police and hastily mobilized army and navy units, the Zulus roared into the ring of Indian settlements surrounding the city, chanting their age-old war songs, brandishing flaming torches, iron spikes and their clublike knobkerries. Whenever an Indian was spotted by the blacks, the fierce cry "Bulala!" (Kill!) was raised...
...dawn broke over the Arena yesterday, a hardy bunch of Kirkland and Dunster hockey players were hard at work playing a game. About the time alarms began to ring in the Houses Dunster was ahead 4 to 2. And as the average man was trying to coordinate mind and body enough to get out of bed, the game twitched violently and lay over dead, with Kirkland...
...bells ring...