Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Attorney who brought in his own staff. Sirica and a partner went into private practice in Washington, renting a three-room office at $30 a room and paying a secretary $10 a week to answer the phone, ("That was the right salary because the phone didn't ring very often.") Sirica's independence was demonstrated in 1944 when Democratic Congressmen selected him, although he is a Republican, as chief counsel for an investigation of the Federal Communications Commission. Sirica quickly sensed that the committee intended to bury rather than expose a budding scandal. He therefore resigned, declaring...
...York City police force. They are brutally efficient, although they could hardly be called an elite corps; their tactics owe as much to football fields and medieval dungeons as the precinct house. The movie, coarse and hammer hard, follows the cops as they bust up an underworld kidnaping ring and avenge the death of a squad member. Director Philip d'Antoni, who produced Bullitt and The French Connection, has cut The Seven-Ups to pattern. The chase scene measures up just fine against its predecessors, and may go them a little better in the department of spleen-shattering spectacle...
...suburban research campuses that ring Detroit, auto engineers are working overtime on designs for even smaller models. Next year, American Motors will probably bring out a new mini-car that may be smaller than any existing U.S.-made auto, get more than 30 m.p.g. and carry a sticker price of about $2,000. Even Cadillac...
...1920s he was widely syndicated, a national institution more or less on a par with his friends Ring Lardner, Will Rogers and Charlie Chaplin. His grand subjects were the quirks of everyday life, things like the difficulty of navigating through revolving doors.or reading a medical thermometer. But Rube Goldberg's zany imagination and zippy drawing style really blossomed with the Inventions of Professor Lucifer Gorgonzola Butts-those incredible falling domino devices that poke fun at the complex concatenations of modern technology by deploying sleepy dogs, melting ice, steam whistles and levers to light a cigar in an open...
...different instruments will require weeks and even months of detailed analysis, but project scientists last week had already made some preliminary conclusions. For one thing, Jupiter's magnetic field-only about ten times stronger than the earth's-follows what the scientists variously dubbed a "Saturn ring" and "Hula-Hoop" model; that is, the lines of magnetic force seem to stretch outward near the equator but are more rounded at the poles. The average temperature of Jupiter's cloud tops is somewhat above 200°F. with no apparent variations on the day and night sides; this...