Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some changes are obvious: cushy red leather couches now ring the small room at the entrance of the commons, and the television in the room is now equipped with cable. A full-sized pool table, donated by the Freshman Dean's Office, now sits at the opposite end of Loker, and additional computer kiosks will soon be installed...
...Finally, it emerged that Dodi Fayed gave Princess Diana a $205,400 diamond "friendship ring" on the night the couple died. The ring was found in the wreckage of the car crash that killed them. Paris jeweler Alberto Repossi , whose store is near the Paris Ritz hotel where the couple shared their last meal, suggested the ring may have meant much more than friendship...
...whole world can see it's a book of love." The tabloids were busy reading the little black book of Dodi's past paramours (Brooke Shields, Winona Ryder et al.) when jilted model Kelly Fisher held a press conference, claiming Dodi as her betrothed and flashing a sapphire ring and a $440,000 breach-of-contract and fraud suit. Diana's future wedded abode was hotly debated: Would it be Julie Andrews' former Malibu home, reportedly just purchased by Dodi, or the Paris love nest of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, now owned by the father...
...popular films of Alfred Hitchcock show that the American people love terror, horror and pain. The Andrew Cunanan-Gianni Versace murder case seems to have that ring to it [NATION, Aug. 4]. No one would have thought that this murderer would put the nation in such a frantic state. With Cunanan's desperate suicide, the worst of this nightmare is over, but we will probably never know what caused him to commit five murders across the country. MARGARET JONES Prescott...
...they tried. They even dusted off a few patriotic slogans from the past. But somehow, "Workers of the World, Unite!" just doesn't have the same ring anymore. And the old czarist favorite, "Orthodoxy, Autocracy and Nationhood," lacks that all-important democratic touch. In their report "Russia in Search of an Idea," the Commission delivers a lot of weighty analysis ? try ploughing through chapters like "The Distribution of Metaphors Related to the Understanding of the National Idea" or "The Ideology of Language and the Language of Ideology" ? but not an original notion to be found. Now Boris is left...