Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they sense it?" Cauthen admits that horses seem to remember him not by sight but when they feel him in the saddle and the touch of his man-size hands on the reins. Paddock punters watch with amazement as colts, skittish during saddling and fractious in the walking ring, suddenly relax when Cauthen goes up in the irons...
Back in the firehouse they had just settled down with some cups of coffee when the intercom blared out "Attention. Rescue only. Rescue going out." The bells in the house began to ring the signal for Rescue, one short followed by one long, and the guys hit the poles and climbed in the truck...
Maybe you had to be there to appreciate it. Same as with the 1960s. All these books and movies dribbling out now about that fine old decade are so heavy, they lack the old ring of verismo. But this bright and mellow spring Sunday just might turn out to be, well, different, you know, together. Milos Forman, the Czech-born director (One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest), trying to turn the Aquarian Age stage hit Hair into a movie, needs an authentic circa 1968 "bein" as backdrop for crucial scenes. Those affairs having gone the way of peace...
More than a year later, Lazaros was arrested on unrelated fraud charges in Michigan and last week died of still undetermined causes in jail. While performing a routine autopsy, doctors found the missing ring-in Lazaros' stomach. Police assume Lazaros swallowed the ring when he was jailed. "We theorize it would pass through his system and two days later he'd swallow it again," said one. No doubt Lazaros thought his secret was safe inside him, but once again it was proved that you can't take it with...
...government radio station. Afghanistan's customary seat of power, the sprawling Royal Palace compound in the heart of Kabul, was unusable. During the coup, the elegant mansions that had been occupied by Daoud and his advisers since they themselves seized power in 1973 were battered by a ring of rebel tanks supported by rocketing planes. Daoud, his aides, their wives and children, and many members of the 2,000-man palace guard were either killed as the compound fell or executed afterward...