Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...railroad station a large crowd packed the platform, weeping and cheering. Women brought flowers, jars of soup and freshly baked cakes for the journey. "May you live 100 years," they chanted, and when the train finally pulled out people still strained to kiss the cardinal's ring as he leaned from the window...
Wherever Wyszynski goes, he makes it a practice to remain until the crowds that inevitably lie in wait for him have dispersed-so as to prevent demonstrations. When he says Mass, he usually emerges from the parish house about an hour after the service. Women kiss his ring, children cling to his robes, people grab at his hands. "Good souls, go home, please," he will say, "or I'll put a tax on you for the rebuilding of the church...
...Dulles' statement does not ring a genuine note with me because the general policy of the Administration has been to avoid court tests in passport cases in rather ignominious fashion," Worthy said...
Most evenings Tenor Herb Surface turns up at Manhattan's Mark Hellinger Theater at 8, slips into baggy trousers, tweed jacket and cap, and steps onto the stage as a member of the Cockney quartet which helps ring down the curtain on My Fair Lady's first act: "All I want is a room somewhere, far away from the cold night air . . ." But one day last week, as he has for many weeks, Tenor Surface got to Times Square early. At 5:30 he joined other members of the My Fair Lady chorus in a studio above Lindy...
...provocative reading which illuminates and makes explicit a part of the world too seldom looked at with the full light of intelligence and that is critical to an understanding of what we are in physical terms, an appreciation which seems very distant from us, and yet Clark's words ring true...