Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Desert, whose parching breath cracks furniture and leaves books curled up. Some 15,000 freed American slaves and their descendants had established a ruling class. As late as 1930, a League of Nations commission discovered that Liberia's Vice President Allen Nathaniel Yancy himself was head of a ring of slavers who regularly sold native laborers to Fernando Po in Spanish Guinea. The women of Liberia's Wedabo tribe still sing...
...such a fashion that my children will grow up to hate America." Luise Funk, a witch-eyed redhead, echoed this threat of future hatred: "The things happening now to the German people are a humiliation they will never forget." That plump valkyrie, former Actress Emmy Sonnemann Göring, had a specific grievance. Recently one of the camp's hungry rats had taken a bite out of her ankle. Said Frau Göring...
When Rocky Graziano and Tony Zale meet in the ring, bloodthirsty fight fans get what they pay for. Before knocking out Rocky last fall, Middleweight Champion Zale acquired a cut lip, red welts around both eyes, a buzzing head, a chipped thumb bone and such weak knees that his handlers had to hold him up in the shower. What Tony and Rocky did to each other in last week's return bout, to the loud delight of 18,547 fans, was something to behold...
...barnlike Chicago Stadium felt and smelled like a crowded Turkish bath. A thermometer near the ringside, under the furious glow of the ring lights, read 88°. A crowd that paid $422,918 to get in (double the take of any previous indoor fight) was packed shoulder to shoulder. The organ pumped out the National Anthem, Zale stood at attention like everybody else, but Rocky Graziano, the reform-school graduate from Manhattan's Lower East Side, went right on dancing and sparring in his corner...
...Steelman Zale had not gone down, but he was lying inertly doubled over the ropes, with Graziano hammering him as if he were trying to decapitate him. Referee Johnny Behr pulled Rocky away and stopped the fight. Whitey Bimstein, Rocky's second, leaped into the center of the ring to congratulate him-and promptly had to dodge a vicious left. Rocky was still fighting, without the faintest idea of what was going...