Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other times, the ability of Exxon, Mobil, Texaco, Gulf, Standard Oil of Indiana, Shell and Standard Oil of California to ring up nine-month 1973 profits that averaged 46% above 1972's comparable period would have brought on considerable praise. But, at a time of oil shortages and sharply rising prices, the great increases fed suspicions on Capitol Hill that the oilmen were using the scarcity as an excuse for jacking up prices and making extortionate profits. Charged Connecticut Senator Abraham Ribicoff: "While the consumer is suffering, the industry seems to be receiving a bonanza...
...year, she finally selects her sister's lover, Baron Erick de Savonne, an aging but agile French tycoon. Dolores nets a $10 million marriage contract-but nothing more. On their wedding night, the Baron leaves his weeping bride alone with her 60-carat diamond ring for the bed of his true love, world-famous Ballerina Ludmilla Rosenko. Susann denies that Dolores is a roman à clef but adds: "If Jacqueline Onassis sees herself as Dolores, she will admit I made her a warm, sympathetic person...
...subject Chaplin knew all about. When the King becomes an unwitting participant in a Candid Camera-type TV show or wittingly attempts to make a living by endorsing cheap booze, he finds he cannot control his name and fame. At this point the movie may not exactly ring resoundingly with truth, but it at least manages to make some small, authentic protesting sounds...
...heavyweight who ever pulled on a pair of padded gloves, the passage into the dusk of his fighting career must be a particularly bitter one. Robbed of three productive years in his fighting prime for embracing unpopular political beliefs, Ali, since re-emerging into the harsh glare of center ring, is no longer the lightning quick and powerful fighter who was banished for prophetically asserting that as an American, he "had no quarrel with them Viet Cong." As penalty for this vision, which he could claim long before it came into vogue, Ali was stripped, not only of his livelihood...
...longer seems able to "float like a butterfly, sting like a bee," and Frazier has passed that point in his career when he reigned as the most intimidating boxer to step into the ring since Liston...