Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pink dawn found the 697-ft. liner heeled well over, her wound completely hidden under water. Above the ring of rescue vessels helicopters from shore appeared at the call of Stockholm. One snatched up three injured seamen, who were hurried to shore. Another gently hoisted the youngest casualty, four-year-old Norma di Sandro, whose skull was fractured, possibly when she was dropped from Andrea Doria into a lifeboat. (She died next day at Boston's U.S. Public Service Hospital.) By 5 a.m. only Captain Calamai and a score of his crew were still aboard Andrea Doria, still trying...
...play, has languished for decades in literature courses and anthologies. It is a difficult drama to produce: it is long, the requirements on the actors in interpretation are tremendous, and the title of this musty classic does not draw at the box-office. Moreover, it is a three-ring circus of dramatic forms--a curious medley of tragedy, farce, melodrama, satire and philosophy--which presents an almost insurmountable problem of style and pacing for the director...
...procession suddenly throbs to life. Hundreds of American cars, driven by buoyant, carefree American Navymen or their wives, begin their winding way through the ancient streets, far out to rented country villas or to the shiny new apartment buildings that crown the surrounding hills. Soon the flowered apartment terraces ring with the pleasant tinkle of ice cubes and buzz to the languid chitchat of the cocktail hour...
...Maximus to Ava Gardner, examines a matador's life from his eating habits (little or no food before a fight so that he can be operated on immediately if a goring lays open his belly) to his occupational hazards (an estimated 10% of bullfighters are killed in the ring, 13% are crippled, 40% are wounded at least 20 times in their careers...
...Light Touch. In Union City, N.J., Otto Lohmann complained in court that George McLaughlin, 32, broke into his apartment, stole a $300 diamond ring, two shirts, an electric fan and a bottle of whisky, then forced him, by running a knife "up and down my stomach," to write a note stating that he had voluntarily surrendered the stuff...