Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Detectives got their first hold on the racket when a Canada-bound "Scotsman" at Prestwick airport, Scotland, pulled out a passport bearing the name of a criminal then in a Glasgow jail. Police arrested the masquerader, were soon hot on the trail of a passport forging and smuggling ring...
...semiannual bluebook frustration and the icy roads between Cambridge and Northampton aren't the only things that have turned the healthy Cantabrigian in to a sniveling wreck this week. Cambridge police, smashing a highly-integrated gambling ring, which has been organizing College sportsmen for high-finance green baizery, have dealt a tolling blow...
...know," he said last week "I am an authoritarian type, and unpopular. I don't want to be popular, I want to do a job. . . . Our members own 800,000 places of business in France. The government knows we can ring down 800,000 iron curtains...
Gaullist agents in the top balconies showered pamphlets on the crowd. From the prizefighting ring which served as a speaker's platform, Leon Gingembre said: "This super-fiscality will kill our economy by braking production. ... If you can't pay your taxes, send your tax forms back to your deputy and ask him to get you out of the mess he got you into...
...heart ailment; in Amsterdam. Painter Van Meegeren set out to even scores with hostile art critics by showing them up as incompetents, produced such a persuasive "Vermeer" that critics acclaimed it as Vermeer's masterpiece. In 1945, charged with collaboration for having sold Hermann Göring a Vermeer, Dutchman Van Meegeren saved his neck by declaring himself a faker, proved it by painting another "Vermeer" in his prison cell...