Word: ringed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...concessions: unlocked barracks, more letters and a few rubles' pay. One by one the camps returned to work until finally there were only a few holdouts. At 10 a.m. on July 31 a detachment of Russian guards was deployed about Vorkuta. Quickly, they clamped an iron ring around the camp and the prisoners were told that everyone not out by 11 a.m. would be shot. As the frightened prisoners marched out of the gate, they were split up into groups of 100, and the strike leaders were arrested. Camp 20 refused to leave their barracks and the guards opened...
...Martin-Rayburn transfer of office had a familiar ring: they had changed places three times before. It reminded Martin of "an old ditty that went something like this: 'Off agin, on agin, gone agin, Finnigin...
...Three-Ring Circus (Paramount) has Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis selling frozen custard at the circus. Customers crowd around. All at once the bung blows out of the custard vat. Splat! Barrages of goo go glugging in all directions. Jerry tries to plug the hole with his fist. Fffffttt! His feet go silly on the slimy stuff, and down he slathers. "Helpfllgrrulp!" As he opens his mouth to holler, a stream of sweet bilge hoses down his esophagus. In a matter of seconds everybody in sight is wallowing gloriously in orange muck, and the whole scene looks like nothing...
Largely as a result of his efforts, their citizenship was revoked, and the ring broken...
...talents. Under the headline WEBB ATTACKED IN LONDON BY TWO MEN IN TAXI, the paper once reported: "Readers are assured that despite the attack upon him, our investigator Duncan Webb will not be intimidated. His inquiries are continuing." One of his inquiries four years ago broke up a vice ring run by the Messina brothers, who had bossed London's pimps and prostitutes for 17 years. After the Home Secretary admitted in Parliament that Scotland Yard had insufficient evidence to break up the ring, Webb hammered away at the brothers in Page One stories under such headlines as: ARREST...