Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...does it feel? Michael Spinks was asked a few days later. The thrill apparently does not last. "I was champ before," he said accurately enough. "I did my celebrating in the ring." That he did, after stopping and setting some records. Despite 5-to-1 odds against him when he challenged Larry Holmes, 35, Spinks, 29, fought on through 15 grueling, if unstirring, rounds to a unanimous decision and his 28th straight victory, making him the first light-heavyweight champion in history to win the heavyweight title. Spinks' upset ended the seven-year reign of his opponent, who was just...
...Lead Singer Annie Lennox, 30, in the role of Miss Liberty in Revolution, an epic film about the American War of Independence, due out in December. "We thought she had the right kind of look for the period," says Winkler of the Scottish rocker. "We thought her voice would ring out in the crowd. It cuts through everything." In the film's opening scene, Lennox incites a mob to take a ship for the American cause from its owner, played by Al Pacino. Lennox took the demands of making her first movie in stride, including repeated dousings with buckets...
...argument that divestment would threaten freedom of speech in the University doesn't ring true. How could making a moral statment supporting the freedom of an oppressed people threaten freedom...
Blacks certainly know there are American investments in South Africa, and those companies stand symbolically as tacit U.S. support for apartheid. They know America is doing very little to help them end apartheid. Divestment by Harvard would carry far, ring clear that some Americans do not favor doing business in a racist country once it became clear that those businesses were doing very little to ameliorate apartheid's burden...
...lethal. In the plague mentality, one belongs either to the kingdom of life or to the kingdom of death. So the state of mind glints with a certain fanaticism. It is said that when children saw the telltale sign during the Black Death in the 14th century, they sang "Ring around a rosie!" That meant they saw a ring on the skin around a red spot that marked the onset of the Black Death. "A pocket full of posies" meant the flowers one carried to mask the ambient stench. The ditty ended in apocalypse: "All fall down." The Black Death...