Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...employee well down the ladder of power. There were 300 placard bearers on the field trying to rehearse, and at the oddest moments an automatic sprinkler system would click on and reduce their practice to drippy disarray. At last the producer located a workman whose raiment included an enormous ring of jangling keys. The key holder was intractable at the start: "Watering that field is just as important to us as the opening ceremonies are to you." Some mean words later, Wolper prevailed. "I just made the most important note of the day," the producer later told a reporter...
...Attorney William Weld indicated that some of the suspects may have worked for companies that benefited from insurance money. The indictment painted a picture of a ring that staked out potential targets at night, took oaths of silence and even dumped 14 fire boxes into Boston harbor to delay the reporting of blazes. Declared Boston Fire Captain Matthew Corbett: "These guys were sick...
...Angeles, five or six lucrative years on the world boxing stage and a subsequent career in the movies. Reportedly, a threeyear, $2 million contract from Paramount Studios has been rejected. But the first trappings of wealth have arrived: cousins. "I have so many cousins these days, they ring the phone off the hook. Everybody's become my cousin...
...Olympic trials winner, seven times national champion and the Olympic gold medal winner in 1976. Last year Pace seemed to have tied McKinney for the world championship, only to see one of his arrows hit another arrow in the bull's-eye and glance off into the nine ring. To have McKinney and Pace side by side on the U.S. team is like sneaking two Boston Celtics disguised as college boys into the basketball competition...
...about those houses on jiggly earth: Frances Ring, who has lived in Los Angeles since 1937, who was F. Scott Fitzgerald's last secretary and who is currently writing a book about that job, lives on a hillside back in a canyon. Her house is not on stilts, as so many others are, but she explains them by saying, "Well, you're kind of on top of the world. Where else could you have this horizon? And some stayed in place even in the earthquake in '71. You may get a slide, but then the sun comes...