Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...young Long Island bachelor named Kermit Rorkmill walked under 100,000 of them and immediately 15 girls called him up-including a few who had passed up his engagement ring. "I didn't know girls were like that," he said...
Financially, Gouzenko is fairly well fixed. Cosmopolitan magazine paid him a reported $50,000 for his story of the spy ring. In addition, he is assured of a small but steady income. A fortnight ago a Canadian industrialist walked into the Justice Building at Ottawa with a plan for Gouzenko. He explained that he knew "seven or eight other men" who would be willing to contribute a fund to buy a Dominion Government annuity for Gouzenko. Told that $24,000 would buy an annuity paying him $100 a month for life, the businessman said:"Never mind the other fellows...
...Fourteen ring neophytes will battle for local boxing laurels in the finals of the University's first postwar cauliflower carnival this afternoon and evening in the third floor boxing room of the Indoor Athletic Building. The tourney is open to the public...
...would fare if an enemy tried to repeat the Japanese coup of five years ago. From the decks of three aircraft carriers, 230 planes were flown against Oahu.* The defense was alerted and did its best in mock dogfights, but the attackers won by "destroying" the vital airfields which ring the great naval base, leaving it virtually defenseless...
...effusive phrases. Then Mr. King rose to speak. He looked wan and haggard. His face, ruddy before his illness, was pale and drawn. For the first time the redoubtable and enduring William Lyon Mackenzie King looked all of his 72 years. Nor did his voice have its accustomed ring as he thanked members and added: "I shall do my best to be on hand right along, but if I should find it desirable to take things a little easy for a short time I know I may count on the understanding of ... the House...