Word: ringed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...decided to hate the Cowboys because they call themselves America's Team. I don't like the ring of that, it sounds fascist. And because all the players act so damned glad to be there--if they don't act that way they get traded...
...congratulates everyone on the jams and pickles?all bottled there. Mrs. Khalil points out "this and this and this"?until the two of them make a full circle and return to where the little children are packed in a classroom, shouting out a rhyme that sounds like "Ring-Around-a-Rosy." Their desks levitate with the noise. At the side of the room opposite the door sits Hilda, bouncing with the others. She sees the grownups and waves. Then she makes her fingers into the sign...
...doughnut with lines on it. Three extra lines extend from the outer rim at he bottom, giving the thing the appearance of an insect. At the top there is yet another line sticking out at an angle to the right, the end of which is attached to a small ring...
...three. Whenever a child refused to work, he was punished with the circular device. The soldiers would place it over the child's head. Three people would hold it steady by means of ropes (the three lines at the bottom). A fourth would grab hold of the ring at the end of the other rope (the line at the top). The device worked like a camera lens, the areas between the lines in the drawing being metal blades. When the rope with the ring was pulled, the lens would close, and the child would be decapitated. A portable guillotine...
...LACKS THE RING of 1688, 1789, 1848, 1917--years of revolution. But it may eventually come to acquire an inherent meaning, recognition as a symbol. If counterrevolution and revolution can be said to exist in a cycle, then 1981 bears many characteristics of the beginning of a new age. The supply-side tonic in America and the repressive policies on display in Poland may prove but two manifestations of a failure to come to grips with the future by resorting to methods of the past. The social fabric both East and West is straining at the seams, and the apparent...