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Word: ringed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many a U.S. citizen experienced a sense of embarrassment as Harry Truman's campaign train headed into the far West. After his Omaha fiasco (TIME, June 14) the President of the U.S. seemed, for a few days, like a groggy fighter out in mid-ring with his eyes glazed and his hands down. He and his office took punishment from angry and shockingly undisciplined Democratic politicos, from a public which showed little interest in its distinguished visitor, and from Politician Harry Truman himself, a man with an unfortunate facility for slips of the tongue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Varied Adventures in the West | 6/21/1948 | See Source »

...This Is New York. A deftly daffy screen version of Ring Lardner's The Big Town, with radio's Henry Morgan (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Jun. 14, 1948 | 6/14/1948 | See Source »

...Iron Curtain. Darryl F. Zanuck's blunt-spoken thriller about the Soviet-Canadian atomic spy ring, with Dana Andrews as the man who cracked it (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Jun. 14, 1948 | 6/14/1948 | See Source »

Much of the writing is dated. The gloomy opening scenes of Desire Under the Elms read like a Ring Lardner parody of Russian drama. Sinclair Lewis' The Man Who Knew Coolidge seems a more imaginative creation 20 years after publication; but he also seems as unreal as the specters who haunted the castles of Gothic novelists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bargain | 6/14/1948 | See Source »

Jeweled Movement. In Portales, N. Mex., Millard F. Holcomb finally discovered the reason why his cow had been limping for the past six years: his wife's long-lost diamond ring was firmly lodged in its hoof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 14, 1948 | 6/14/1948 | See Source »

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