Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when the story broke recently that 10 Vermont youngsters were running a child prostitution ring, reaction was mixed. "Gross" is the most common response, but it is a "Gross" tinged with respect: Every child has money-making schemes, but these kids actually went through with theirs. And successfully: if not for an anonymous tip, which led to a month-long police investigation, the ring might still be going...
Pilot 805 has set his radar to get an automatic fix on the target, bringing his missiles into alignment with the jetliner ahead. The moving half circles on his radar screen close to form a glowing full ring with an orange or a green dot in the middle. The Su-15 is now "locked on" for a straight shot at the KAL airliner...
...injuries suffered in a World Boxing Council title bout with Alberto Davila on Sept. 1; in Los Angeles. After undergoing 3½ hours of surgery to remove a section of his frontal lobe, the boxer lingered comatose for two more days; his was the 437th boxing death recorded by Ring magazine over the past 64 years. Bejines' wife, pregnant with the couple's first child, remained in their home town of Guadalajara, Mexico...
...last morning train, a dog-walking native asked, "Train late?" "Yes," replied the commuter, thinking he was finally being accepted. "Good," said the native. "Maybe you'll go back where you came from." Sometimes, though, there will be touching signs of grudging welcome. A doorbell will ring, but no one will be there when it is answered. Instead, paper bags of tomatoes and zucchini, the bounteous excess of native gardens, will be left like unwanted infants...
...people I met and men I dated outside the business, that stupidity was a prerequisite for a modeling career. At one point, though. I had to ask myself if I really had the right to feel indignant about being treated like a dumb model, because there was a growing ring of truth to it. I had left high school at 16, a voracious reader Now, at 23, I hadn't read through a book in years. The realization that a transitory stage had turned into a way of life brought on a panic and depression which my grandparents could never...