Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...found surprisingly few Soviet soldiers on the streets except in front of Radio Afghanistan, the Interior Ministry and the post office. Back at the hotel, an employee told him: "Did you see many 'others' in town? There are tens of thousands. They are like a steel ring around the city...
...comprehend or even cared to, by a small spot that expanded, grew, shouldered against the facts he had stored in his brain; the constant pushing made sleep impossible, even when sleep was assisted by--or perhaps itself driven away--by several slugs from a bottle of cheap bourbon. A ring of light glowed in the east past the Charles, like the necklace of a dark lady, and that told him it was dawn or otherwise he might not have known because time, like history, had broken down for Bell--time became irrelevant to the text of events that private myth...
Wagner, Die Meistersinger (London, 5 LPs, 1976). The man who led the first recorded Ring cycle, Sir Georg Solti, turns from gods and heroes to a warm, glowing account of everyday life in old Nürnberg...