Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When day breaks, church bells ring in Temple, Texas, founded in 1881 astride the rail line south of Waco and not far from modern-day Fort Hood, the largest military base in the free world. Temple's churches fill on Sunday, and as the white sun climbs higher, hymns are sung and sermons spoken. Down at the Frank W. Mayborn Civic and Convention Center, parishioners of Temple Bible Church finish their prayers and stream out into the noonday heat, and the bright light that bears down on the town, bleaching its low buildings against the prairie...
...places, even though wrestling won't begin until 2 o'clock. Loretta Lynn's soft voice drifts from loudspeakers embedded in the ceiling above a concrete floor set with row after row of red plastic chairs. In the middle of the arena is a blue canvas ring lit with bright, hot, white lights. In a corner stand armed security men. "Our job is to protect the wrestlers from the people," says a Temple guard. Finally a gong rings, and an announcer climbs through the ropes and into the ring...
Blanchard knows his business and his wrestlers. He says that wrestlers do well by developing strong ring personalities and by engaging in lengthy and hateful grudge matches that stir fan loyalties. Such disputes often begin on Blanchard's Monday wrestling television show and spill over into the arena, where more insults and slurs lead to head stompings and chair bashings. Not long ago, one of Blanchard's matches climaxed with a combatant dumping a large bucket of manure on his opponent's head...
Genovese reappeared as an interpreter in the offices of the Allied Military Command in Italy. He soon became the head of a huge smuggling ring dealing in goods stolen from the U.S. Army. The Army arrested Geno vese in 1944, and he was forcibly returned to the U.S. By then the witnesses to the outstanding murder charge against him had disappeared and he was able to assume control of the Luciano crime family. In 1959 he was sentenced to 15 years on a narcotics charge and died in prison a decade later...
Among the Italian-American mobsters who are believed to have collaborated with U.S. intelligence before the Allied landing in Sicily was Charles ("Lucky')' Luciano. In 1946, Dewey commuted his 30-to 50-year sentence for running a New York prostitution ring so that he could be deported to Italy. Together with a number of other American mobsters, Luciano helped form a new organization that was far more interested in the burgeoning international drug market than in old-fashioned "businesses" such as cattle rustling and extortion. The inevitable clash between the new and old Mafia resulted in a sensational...