Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...having some success. Using Farsi-speaking agents to track smugglers, U.S. narcotics officers have confiscated heroin with a street value of some $94 million in the past five months. French police two weeks ago arrested Jean Jehan, the "silver fox," who had figured in the French-connection narcotics ring and had recently resurfaced in the Southwest Asian traffic...
...audience watching the new show, A Cure by Laughter, at the Old Moscow Circus already suspects what "doctor" from outer space is going to pop out of that tiny spaceship landing in the single ring, and their delight is tangible. Sure enough, what emerges is no astronaut, considering the oversize checkered cap perched on unruly shocks of blond hair, black velvet jacket, red scarf, clodhopper shoes and, of course, trademark potato nose. After 30 years with the circus, Oleg Popov, 49, is regarded as the king of clowns even beyond Soviet borders. How long did it take to dream...
Today there are some 600 active volcanoes on the earth's surface. Many of them, times Mount St. Helens and other volcanoes of the American North west, rim the Pacific along the so-called Ring of Fire, which sweeps from the tip of South America north to the Aleutians and Japan, down to New Zealand. More are hidden under the sea. The ancients were convinced that eruptions occurred because of the anger of the gods; today's scientists have a more modern theory. It is generally believed that the giant, continent-size plates forming the earth...
...that stations around the country, particularly on the West Coast, are rushing to clone her. Marr, now at Seattle's KVI, has hired Jennifer James, a cultural anthropologist. Station KXRX in San Jose has taken on Psychologist Thomas Tutko, while San Francisco's KSFO signed Psychologist Bonnie Ring. Bay Area Rival KGO hopes to top that by finding a male and a female psychologist to do a show together. Says a KGO spokeswoman: "Everyone in the industry saw what Toni Grant did to the ratings, and now everybody wants to copy her. She grows on you." Grant...
...teams expect more and more that they will have a shot at the golden ring on the national sports merry-go-round, the pressures and the frustration mount. It is a vicious, self-perpetuating cycle that must be dealt with now, before too many more athletes drift throught the Ivy League--and through Harvard--retaining a bitter aftertaste for college life. Such disillusion should not be passively endured, especially not in the Ivy League, where you are told to expect Utopia...