Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enforced secrecy of the last three months, Britain's Princess Elizabeth had grown sullen and snappish from yearning to tell the neighbors all about Philip. Last week she was smiling radiantly as garden party guests clustered near her, hoping for a glimpse of her ring. "It's like turning a page in a book," she said...
...woman shifted her burden, answered: "I have five children. I gave my wedding ring for these potatoes...
Indignant, the pastor took the name and address of the greedy farmer. Next Sunday he told his congregation that a farmer in his parish had taken a gold wedding ring from the mother of five hungry children for 60 lbs. of potatoes, denounced the action as a disgrace. If the guilty man did not bring him the ring, said the pastor, he would announce his name from the pulpit the following Sunday...
Sweet Plan. Free trading in sugar futures was resumed last week after 5½ years of rigid controls. As traders gathered around the ring in the New York Coffee & Sugar Exchange, the House Agriculture Committee approved a new set of controls-but of a very different sort. With a world sugar surplus in the offing, the bill will extend for five years the present sales quota system for all foreign and domestic producers. The bill, which Congress is expected to pass this session, ties the sugar price to the cost of living. As long as the cost-of-living stays...
...himself as a "road trader," driving all over the Midwest in a covered wagon and swapping animals with farmers along the road. That sharpened his trader's eye; now he can tell an animal's value as soon as it takes a few steps in the auction ring...