Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During a cloak-and-dagger TV play in Britain, a solemn voice announced to televiewers: "Should you be threatened, ring the secret number Whitehall 5422, give the code number 1785, then the code word 'curtain raiser,' and you will be put straight through to the Prime Minister!" Delighted to hear such hush-hush information, hundreds rushed to their telephones to pass the time of day with Sir Anthony Eden, succeeded only in clogging the Cabinet Office's tie line to 10 Downing Street...
With time and money to relax, Rocky found that he enjoyed being a family man. Last week, after breaking the news to his manager, Al Weill, he announced that he was going to quit the ring while he still had his title and his health. He is the only heavyweight champion ever to retire without a defeat on his record...
There is even a growing feeling that the great stock shows with their blue ribbons and hoopla show-ring standards are out of line with the new technology of converting feed into meat. Said a cowman recently: "You buy a prize bull and the first thing you have to do is thin him down. Not only is he not fit for the range, but he has no inclination to cover a cow until he's taken off 300 pounds...
...buried alive. An unquiet grave. Teletypes chatter, switchboards mumble, telephones scream, messengers dart. Behind closed doors the generals wrangle: How much do they dare tell Hitler of how desperate the situation is? The politicians gather nervously for the Führer's birthday party. Goebbels, Göring, Himmler, Bormann, Speer-the likenesses are good enough to inspire shudders. Eva Braun (Lotte Tobisch), in her frumpy frock and country perm, might have stepped right out of the photograph on Hitler's desk...
Enter Hitler (Albin Skoda). The generals give him the bad news; he spits black bile and throws them out. Goebbels brings in the astrologer. "Im August Sieg!" At news of Roosevelt's death, the Führer does a jig. When Speer and Göring try to tell him the war is lost, he vests command in the SS. A squad of Hitler youth, who have done men's work in the battles before Berlin, are marched in to be decorated. Hitler pats their cheeks, pins medals on them and gives each one an éclair...