Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Inquiry revealed that Odia's wife was a young woman named Naji, who came from another village and was not herself a Shakta. One night Odia told her to put on her wedding costume, a black kanchalia and a billowing scarlet skirt, scarlet headshawl, heavy silver bangles, toe rings and silver nose ring. Odia then placed on her forehead a silver lingam, a highly stylized phallic symbol hung from a silver chain, and led her to a place where, at the behest of a guru (priest), 84 Shaktas and their wives had assembled in a secluded place...
...mellowed since it first went to press in 1922. A Post host of today, unlike those in earlier versions, no longer need feel remiss for not providing a hook for a guest's razor strop and a sign announcing, "If there is not enough hot water, please ring three times." As for the ladies, the post-1920's Post concedes that it is no longer incorrect to dine alone with a gentleman in his apartment, but cautions: "You should leave before ten . . . past midnight is too late for a well-behaved young woman to be leaving bachelor flats...
...with the Ford Foundation). "Religiosity-or the God-bit, as it is called in the more cynical capital circles-has long been a part of our political tradition . . . The people, especially religious people, seem to demand it-and who is to say that there may not be some faint ring of sincerity as the politico's little coins of godliness are dropped? [But] the new God-bit is more serious. It is the identification of our national cause, our needs, our ends-conceived in political and military terms -with God's cause, His needs and His ends . . . Certain...
...Cleveland, TV boxing reached an inevitable: professional fights are held in a specially constructed studio ring with crowd noises supplied by recording. The boxers' purses are put up by the show's sponsor, Pilsener Brewing...
...long series of beatings that had put Adolph ("Ad") Wolgast into the psychopathic ward of California's Stockton State Hospital in the first place. For eleven years the "Michigan Wildcat" had held his own in the savage battles of the pre-World War I prize ring. He had slugged and butted and cuffed his way to the lightweight championship of the world, and he had his brains unhinged in the process. A small-town scrapper from Cadillac, Mich., Ad Wolgast took the title from Battling Nelson in 1910. Their 40-round brawl at Point Richmond, just across...