Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hollywood Columnist Hedda Hopper has tossed one of her hats into Ike's ring. ¶ To cool the "Elvis for President" craze among teenagers, Elvis Presley spread the word: "I'm strictly for Stevenson. I don't dig the intellectual bit, but I'm telling you, man, he knows the most...
...scene shifted to Cairo. There two men, by ordinary reckoning relatively minor contenders, met in the center of the ring with all the world looking on. Australia's white-haired Robert Gordon Menzies, assured and sagacious, faced Egypt's young Gamal Abdel Nasser, clever and ambitious. The stakes were high, the din was deafening and the outcome uncertain...
...feet, Duke sent for his mother. "I was never out of her sight until I was eight," he says. "She and my father even used to take me to dances and set me on the bandstand while they danced." He bought her furs and a big diamond ring, and sought her advice constantly. When he toured, she would follow him around the country. When she died, Duke wept in his sister's arms. As for his father, Duke had long since made him road manager of his band...
...birthday present to a department-store executive "who has everything": a brush specially designed to clean the lint from his navel. R. H. Macy, Manhattan's mass department store, offers French beaded purses for $99.50; Sears, Roebuck, the farmer's friend, catalogues a $3,210 diamond ring for the farmer's wife, a $718 electric golf cart for the farmer. Last week, at the Summer Gift Show in Chicago's Merchandise Mart, prices were up as much as 100% over five years ago, but the show had the most successful run in its history, with sales...
...cannot hand Luc back to his wife in quite the airy way in which she took him. But Luc has not fallen in love, and before novel's end, Dominique has to do the penance she has always detested-the waits by the telephone that doesn't ring, the anguished, banal begging ("I can't live without you") and the ever-present taste of ashes that even whisky will not wash away...