Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though the gobbles of Thanksgiving turkeys still ring through the hills of Massachusetts, city hall, retailers, charity organizations and religious groups seem determined to ram the Christmas spirit down the throats of Cantabridgians...
...Francisco last week, a convicted child molester was arrested on a charge of running a child prostitution ring that may have involved 30 boys. Police Sergeant George Huegle, who made the arrest, said that the kids were brought to customers in various parts of the city and were "exhibited like livestock, naked." On both the North and South sides of Chicago, separate rings of girl prostitutes, many of them only twelve years old, are at work. Some of the pre-teens earn $200 nightly. In Los Angeles, police estimate that up to 3,000 girls and boys under...
...reality of her private life was, however, grim. Her husband, an auto-body repairman she married at 18, continually slapped her around and subjected her to agonizing sexual abuse. Says Mrs. Patri's attorney, Alan Eisenberg: "He apparently dreamed up his own sexual circus and she was the ring monkey." But even after learning last year that Patri was molesting their twelve-year-old daughter, Jennifer failed to leave him or notify the authorities. She now says: "I felt dutybound to my marriage vows...
NONFICTION: The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh, edited by Michael Davie Dispatches, Michael Herr∙Parallel Botany, Leo Lionni∙Ring, Jonathan Yardley∙The River Congo, Peter Forbath
...chroniclers have done before. His relationships to the Black Muslims, his opponents, and his fans are all rendered clearer by Plimpton's insights. A most illuminating anecdote is Ali's description of the Near Room, an imaginary place Ali found himself looking into when things went badly in the ring...