Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exist around horseshoe magnets are gentle, harmless things, but when a magnetic field gets really intense, it acts like a high explosive. Physicists H. P. Furth of the University of California, M. A. Levine of the Air Force Cambridge Research Center, and R. W. Waniek of Harvard showed a ring of hard beryllium copper that had been expanded plastically by a magnetic field, even though it was surrounded by steel many inches thick...
...from Japan in 1941 and became a U.S. citizen in 1947, was ostensibly a respectable businessman, dealing in animal hair and bristles. Under cover, according to U.S. Attorney Paul M. Williams, he was a Soviet superspy who "replaced" Vassily Zubilin as "a dominant figure in the espionage ring." In advance of presenting the case to the grand jury, the Justice Department declined to specify where and how the Sobles or Albam had spied. But at week's end the FBI whisked Albam away from his colleagues in the federal prison, and the rumor spread that he was telling...
...ring foes piled through the ropes, Dempsey engaged each in a heavyweight exchange of compliments. Said towering Fred Fulton, whom the Mauler knocked out in 18 seconds of the first round in 1918: "If I had to lose, I was glad it was to Jack Dempsey." Replied Dempsey: "It was you fellows who made me." From France came Georges Carpentier, a dandy of 63, who plugged not only Dempsey but his own Paris restaurant. From the Argentine came Luis Angel Firpo, 62, once the Wild Bull of the Pampas, now a lumbering giant whose dignity shone somehow through his confusion...
...Young Stranger (RKO Radio) is a sensitive, winning job of moviemaking, and a stranger in more ways than one. It is that rare U.S. movie with not much plot, but with a sense of reality and people who ring true. The film was adapted by Robert Dozier, son of RKO Production Chief William Dozier, from his TV play, Deal a Blow, and is based on an incident that happened to him. Its point turns on the emotional gulf that separates a bright teen-age boy from his successful movie-producer father...
These are among the fixed, solemn bells on which Author Compton-Burnett has managed to ring wild, gay changes for more than 30 years (e.g., Bullivant and the Lambs, Two Worlds and Their Ways). But no matter how worn her plots may be, the conversation is sure to be spangled with jewels that, to her devoted followers, still proclaim her a Cartier of contemporary fiction...