Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rosenbergs were arrested in 1950 and charged with having been ring-leaders of a Soviet spying organization which during the Second World War succeeded in pilfering what was then referred to as "the secret of the atomic bomb." They were tried, convicted, and sentenced to death. The case turned on two key witnesses. One was David Greenglass, Ethel Rosenberg's brother, who cooperated with the government and sent his sister and brother-in-law to the electric chair in return for a reduced sentence. The other was Harry Gold, a self-confessed spy who also traded his testimony...
...topped one section of the fence with barbed wire after a rash of invasions by pranksters. But a mugging early last summer and recent car break-ins and gasoline siphonings have frightened the village's board of trustees to finish what they started. Now they have decided to ring the entire village in the same fashion, an action that when completed may give Leisure Village the dubious distinction of being the first community in the U.S. entirely surrounded by barbed wire...
...White House is sterile, there's limited access to sources and it drives good men to drink," he went on. "The best beat in town is Congress. Up on the Hill there's a three-ring circus--an open community--where there's always something going on and somebody willing to talk...
...brutal arm of czarist oppression before 1917. He branded former Attorney General Ramsey Clark a "fluttering butterfly" for ignoring Russian dissidents, but visiting POW camps in Hanoi. Solzhenitsyn is among the most conservative of the Soviet dissidents, and in an age where people call for detente, his protests ring with Cold War echoes...
...Republican seat in Michigan's fifth district, in a race that featured Nixon as its primary issue. The one-man attack, he stated, had been used before, had failed, and would fail again in this year's congressional elections. Only the nervous edge on his voice gave a suspicious ring to the response...