Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end the Austrian Cabinet met in a special session, peremptorily expelled Teleki and Kertesz as personae non gratae. For the Austrian security police it was the second breakup of a Communist spy ring since last year, when they similarly put out of business an espionage network set up by the Czechoslovak legation...
...take him out in the seventh or eighth round," said Lightweight Champion Joe Brown just before he climbed into the ring in Houston to defend his title against nimble, light-punching Challenger Ralph Dupas. As good as his word, the lean Louisiana Negro put Dupas on the deck three times in the eighth, finally stepped back politely to let Referee Jimmy Webb announce what everyone in the arena already knew: Brown was still the boss of the 135-lb. division...
...news source to nibble some sugar from his palm. But when Jämsä lunged forward to wrestle, the startled bear fouled him by clawing two gashes from the corner of his right eye down his cheek. Blinded by blood, Jämsä was led from the ring a beaten man. Said he: "I realized that this was not such a small bear as I thought. The bear won. But I got my story...
...optimistic was Astronomer Thomas Gold of Harvard. Gold pointed out that the ring-shaped meteor craters on the moon can be given comparative ages by the way they overlap, and that the walls of the oldest ones are generally low. This means, said Gold, that during the 4 billion years or so of the moon's life, its exposed rock has been slowly turned into dust by bombardment of rays and particles from the sun and space. The dust, kept stirred up by the same agents that formed it, has flowed like a slow liquid into the moon...
Qualification. In Mt. Vernon, Ind., Gene E. Brooks threw his hat in the ring for the Democratic nomination for Posey County Prosecutor even though he flunked the bar exams last year...