Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Looking across the border to Soviet Armenia, Turkish natives saw a huge plume of smoke rising from the Communist territory. On that same day-Sept. 2, 1958 -just short minutes before the smoke rose, Allied radio monitors around the southern ring of the U.S.S.R., taping their daily quota of Russian radio talk, recorded the grim conversation of five Soviet jet fighter pilots...
...heyday, when everything on television was new and attractive, pro wrestling boomed. Desperate for new acts, new gimmicks, promoters began to push such gaudy huskies as "Gorgeous George," a marcelled, peroxide blond who made the sham slaughter seem even more ridiculous by his coy shenanigans in the ring and out. "The queens are passe now," says Columnist Jimmy Cannon, but wrestlers are still getting away with their hammy histrionics, still faking pain, anguish and angry violence with steady success...
...tank towns eat high on around $12,000 a year. Everywhere the violent routine is just about the same: drop kicks that could snap a man's neck if the act were honest and they really landed in the face, bullet heads pounded boomingly against unyielding ring posts, ear biting, eye gouging, hair pulling, and plain, old-fashioned strangling...
Breakfast at Tiffany's, by Truman Capote. Willful, wistful Holly Golightly is waiting for true love's call, but the men who ring are all wrong numbers...
Those anxious to hear the magic of the tickertape machine and the merry ring of their heels on the pavement will be eager to add intensity to the News Board competition. And if you favour the daguerreotype to scoops and sports, the Photography Competition, with free training and professional equipment, will not keep you in the dark for long...