Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Carat Topped. In Los Angeles, a notice was posted in police headquarters in City Hall: "18-carat white-gold engagement ring with 12 diamonds to trade for a .38-cal., 2-in. barreled revolver...
...tough old Sewell Lee Avery has been in plenty of fights for control of the company, and has never lost a battle. In the process out have gone five presidents, 32 vice presidents and countless other top employees. But last week the toughest opponent of all stepped into the ring against Avery. The new challenger: Louis Elwood Wolfson, 42, one of the fastest-moving corporation jugglers of the postwar decade...
...Ring Out the Old. By week's end Congress had stamped its final seal of approval on a bale of bills. The main ones: flex ible farm-parity prices, atomic energy, death penalty for peacetime espionage, social security, foreign aid, 5% Government salary raise, unemployment compensation, higher national debt limit, Commodity Credit Corporation borrowing authority, Foreign Service expansion, and the "Hiss" bill revoking pensions of Government workers convicted of felonies or using the Fifth Amendment...
...cause; he had been No. 2 man in the Greek Communist Party and chief of its underground espionage system. For more than six years, the tubercular Ploumbides had hidden in the squalid back alleys of Athens, playing cat-and-mouse with police, while he and his illegal spy ring sent information across the border. His sister had been executed for Red activity; his wife Julia was in prison awaiting the same fate...
...Francisco's Cow Palace, Honolulu-born Carl ("Bobo") Olson weighed in a half-pound over the 160-lb. limit before defending his middleweight championship against Rocky Castellani, took an hour to sweat himself down to size, then chased Castellani around the ring for 15 uninspired rounds and kept his title...