Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mexico City, it was still the novillada (young bullfighters' season)-but the brand-new, 48,000-seat Plaza Mexico (world's largest bull ring) was jammed with aficionados. Never had they seen a novice like Joselillo (Little Joe) Rodriguez...
...asked to explain his quick fortune of $3,024,000, he had an answer ready. Said Van Meegeren: he had made his pile not by collaborating but by forging seven Vermeers and two Pieter de Hooches; one phony Vermeer he had patriotically palmed off on Göring (TIME, Sept. 10, 1945). To prove it, he painted still another "Vermeer," Jesus in the Temple (see cut), in his cell. It looked unlike Vermeer's cool, clean interiors, but did remind Dutch art experts of one of the master's few religious paintings: Christ with Mary and Martha...
...Roman Catholic Church has excommunicated Tito and a flock of his workers [TIME, Oct. 21]. Reminds me of the famous excommunication of the Jackdaw of Rheims-remember? (The Jackdaw had stolen the Cardinal's ring...
...amplifier, would keep sending out whistle blasts pitched so high that nobody could hear them; but if a signal box ahead had its danger arm up, a reflector would send back the sound waves to the locomotive. There a microphone would detect the supersonic racket, a bell would ring (or a light flash), and the engineer would throttle down to his foggy-foggy...
Eleven Bellboys from Lowell harmonized to the tune of three touchdowns yesterday to ring up the most decisive victory of the House football season thus far at the expense of an outmanned Winthrop aggregation...