Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Three-Ring Circus. In his capacity as mahout of the Republican elephant, Len Hall has one of the most sensitive jobs in politics. As G.O.P. chairman, Hall is the producer of a circus with three rings: the National Committee, which handles the presidential and vice presidential campaigns and maps out overall party strategy, and its two auxiliaries on Capitol Hill, the Senate and House Campaign Committees, which concentrate on local congressional campaigns...
...barroom lingo. I was talking to myself, not to all who would listen, though certainly into my cups." According to Critic Williams, Grand Trouper Bankhead magnificently steered Streetcar back on the track after that. "To me she brought to mind the return of some great matador to the bull ring in Madrid, for the first time after having been almost fatally gored, and facing his most dangerous bull with his finest valor . . . When the play was finished [on its Manhattan opening night] I rushed up to her and fell to my knees at her feet . . . Such an experience...
...look too big." Behind him, a blue-smocked boy and a white-smocked girl laboriously lit the 80 candles on a dove-dotted birth day cake bought by the children themselves. Then, with the blazing cake before him, the Pope found himself the center of a dancing ring-around-a-rosy. A tremulous child chorus burst out: "Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday, Holy Father, happy birthday to you." On the way back to his apartment, the Pope found 17 cardinals waiting for him in the Hall of Popes. They wished him an informal happy birthday...
...nineteenth Century. The spirit it engendered in the undergraduate becomes clear in an excerpt from a poem entitled "The Rebellion," written by a student in memory of the Riot of 1819: "But Oh! the Sophs! their frantic yells Were louder far than lecture bells They form'd a ring about the Tree, And to this solemn oath agree: 'By This Almighty Plant, we swear. 'We will not flinch a single hair 'Until the laws of College rot, 'And government is sent...
What is worth fighting for? West Germans, forming a new army eleven years after the Wehrmacht's surrender, are again debating this fateful question, and the old, martial German answers no longer ring true. Last week one of West Germany's 14 Evangelical Academies-which have been holding conferences for laymen to discuss moral and social problems-considered the sanctions for war in the modern world. At Loccum, near Hannover, gathered 120 military leaders, chaplains, bankers, white collar workers and clergymen from seven countries. First speaker was the secretary-general of the German Evangelical Church's annual...