Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Arthur was going to make it - he would be reappointed next day by Jimmy Carter, whispered the first caller. Ring, ring. Another voice. Sorry, it was all off. The President was dropping Burns as chairman. The negative word from the White House would soon be public. Jangle, jangle. New rumor running through the city. In just a few minutes Carter would speak in the Mayflower Hotel to the Business Council, a group of high-powered corporate chiefs, and drop his bombshell: Burns would have another four-year term as Fed chairman. Carter indeed met with the council, but he never...
...access to information on nuclear weapons storage locations and mobilization plans. Her husband, Lothar-Erwin Lutze, 37, who worked as an official in the ministry's weapons section, recruited both his wife and the third member of the trio, Jürgen Wiegel, 32, into the espionage ring. Wiegel, so far the only one to admit his guilt, was employed as a clerk in the ministry's naval staff...
...shop markets some 170 games, the latest of which is a Tolkien imagining called War of the Ring. For $20 the Hobbit fancier gets three large maps of Middle Earth, and a densely printed 28-page rulebook with instructions like "To attempt Citadel Reduction, the Dark Power Player must expend one Shadow Point for each Nazgul present...
...leaders cheered, President George Meany, 83, declared that the Government should spend billions to create millions of jobs; should refuse to cut taxes on business; and should limit imports. "Free trade," he declared, is "a joke and a myth." But the familiar bravado had a hollow ring, for organized labor is in trouble. Its leadership is out of step with a nation that is increasingly worried about inflation and annoyed over Government controls. Beyond that, labor confronts a U. S. President who is not all that friendly and a rank and file that is disputatious and declining...
Brown told Plimpton that it was O.K. to shadowbox at a professional gym, like Stillman's, but he should get out of the ring immediately if anyone else got in. "Those guys'll hit anything moving," the author was warned, "the timekeeper, if he got in there; a handyman sent in to check the ring posts; anybody. And as for a writer, those guys'd smack a writer on the beak just to see what would happen." Plimpton sparred without disaster at the Racquet Club and studied a boxing manual he found in the library there, dated...