Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...congealing of his "rainbow coalition" of blacks, Hispanics, women, peace activists and environmentalists. But with an exploratory committee, headed by Mayor Hatcher, established and a "draft" committee of black ministers set to deliver a million-signature petition to Jackson by late August, his hat is already sailing toward the ring. Says New York Congressman Charles Rangel: "He's a Baptist minister, and Baptist ministers get callings...
...years of MacPhail's watch, which concludes this year, he has put no one in mind of either Solomon or Kenesaw Mountain Landis. But the ringing phrases in MacPhail's two-page reversal included: "The spirit of the rules" and "It is the strong conviction of the league that games should be won and lost on the playing field." The umpires' call was "technically defensible"; MacPhail did not blame them. With a flourish, he even commended "Manager Martin and his staff for their alertness." But all future complaints about pine tar will have to be lodged before...
...from a bad revenue base. New Hampshire, which taxes neither sales nor income, is an unfortunate case in point. Residents must pay unusually high levies on real estate but receive substandard public services in return. The state's motto, "Live Free or Die," may have a brave historical ring but makes little fiscal sense. The origins of good leadership, or the lack of it, are as varied as the states. Peirce and Hagstrom suggest that Missouri's skeptical show-me spirit accounts for the caliber of such men as Harry Truman, Clark Clifford and Stuart Symington. Residents...
Peter Hall and Georg Solti combine on a controversial Ring...
...annual Richard Wagner opera festival. Inside a broiling, stifling Festspielhaus, an elegant first-night crowd shed its tuxedo jackets along with its customary solemn decorum as it watched, with growing disappointment, impatience and finally anger, a new production of Wagner's 16-hour, four-evening German myth, Der Ring des Nibelungen, by two British knights, Director Sir Peter Hall and Conductor Sir Georg Solti...