Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...long, low buildings of Concord, with their barred doors, cinder-block walls, and linoleum floors, couldn't be more different from the cozy and chaotic PLAP office. Phones ring incessantly over the classical music playing on the stereo, and office manager Daria M. Aumand's dog pads about, greeting everyone at the door...
...meat and poultry industries. His bloody retirement may have been deemed necessary because of a series of indictments brought against him by U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani. At the time of his death, the soft-spoken don was on trial in Manhattan federal court for masterminding an international car-theft ring. The day after his murder, Castellano's co-defendants asked for a mistrial, citing the possible prejudice that could result from the public assassination. Castellano had also been scheduled to go on trial this spring with other purported leaders of the city's five Mafia families, accused of running...
Finally, consider the other extreme. The hypothetical legislator didn't know he or she might be abducted and forced by hunger to go on the 'payroll' of a lucrative prostitution and pornography ring. He or she didn't expect to be forced to have sex daily, with strangers, under the unblinking eye of a movie camera. He or she didn't anticipate being beaten and drugged, tied up and raped, on a regular and profit-motivated basis...
...long ago, for instance, child mortality rather than our contemporary dilemmas of how to keep kids quiet in the classroom and fair on the playground was the main problem. Consequently, children were taught differently. Death appeared often in rhymes and stories. "Ring Around the Rosy," for example, is about the Black Death, and "Hansel and Gretel" contains images of infanticide and immolation...
This is a book with bite. Dentistry: an Illustrated History by Malvin E. Ring, D.D.S. (Abrams; 320 pages; $75) ranges through time and twinges from the Maya Indians, who used tooth implants almost 1,400 years ago, to the latest microelectric techniques. What might have been a waiting-room time killer becomes instead a lively parade of names and incidents: Muhammad using an early version of the toothbrush; Henry VIII granting a charter for dental surgery to barbers; Paul Revere providing dental fillings before proceeding to larger items of silverware; Charles Lindbergh posing with his grandfather, the inventor...