Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this relationship" turn out to include adultery, Boesak's career and influence would almost certainly be shattered, not only because of the affair but because he denied it. Last week, after a lengthy conference, a special three-member Mission Church panel decided to refer his case to the full Ring (regional circuit) of the church for decision. This week executives of the South African Council of Churches will hold their own emergency meeting on the situation. Any Mission Church decision to suspend or defrock the clergyman would have a wide, wounding ripple effect. Boesak would have to resign his position...
...Morris, who had been alternately praised for her persistence and berated as overzealous, suddenly announced that the county was dropping all charges against the remaining 19 defendants. The reason: to spare the children further trauma and safeguard the investigation of the alleged homicides committed by members of the sex ring...
...pair is taken into protective custody by Detective John Book (Harrison Ford, in a shy, gruff, well-controlled performance). But when Samuel identifies the killer as a policeman, and Book discovers that the man is part of a dope ring that includes other police officers, it is he who needs protection. Shot by the murderer, Book hides out on Rachel's farm, where his wound is healed by folk medicine. But his presence is resented by the Amish. They are kindly but stern people who understand that threats to their way of life can come in benign forms...
...have been here before. George Plimpton humiliated himself with the pros. Roger Angell has described a pitcher standing on a "hill like (a) sunstruck archaeologist at Knossos." John Updike, Ring Lardner, Philip Roth, Mark Harris, Robert Coover and other "serious" writers have regarded baseball as a metaphor for the human predicament. What can a puffing 56- year-old add to the overloaded shelf of belles lettres on the summer game...
...nationwide plan to ring the Pentagon with a banner protesting nuclear weapons will reach out to Harvard students tomorrow when local organizers of the effort visit Currier House and encourage students and staff to start making banner segments at a "sew-in" for peace...