Word: ringeing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...already, through the highceilinged, 48-year-old Our Lady of the Angels grammar school in West Side Chicago, many of the 1,200 youngsters were beginning to turn away from books, fidget in their seats, wonder if the 3 p.m. dismissal bell would ever ring. In fifth-grade geography on the second floor, the teacher thought that the room was getting too warm. Said she: 'Why don't some of you boys open the windows?" In fourth-grade arithmetic, a boy blurted: "Sister, I smell smoke." Smoke began to seep under classroom doors, through open transoms. A fire...
...from 1952 until last January; of a heart attack; in Moscow. Where he appeared, Western secrets tended to vanish. In 1945, during Zarubin's tenure as first Soviet Ambassador to Canada, Russian Embassy Clerk Igor Gouzenko defected and revealed the existence of a Red spy ring that had vacuumed Canada for strategic information, had shipped samples of pure Uranium 235 off to Moscow. Officially, Zarubin was cleared of complicity in the case. While he served in Washington, the U.S. Government occasionally expelled segments of his staff for espionage, but no one ever hung anything on Georgy...
...America as standing for principle is almost frightening. Their image of the U.S. is really a nineteenth-century one--we are still, above all, a country dedicated to "the ideals of '76," still the land of opportunity for the downtrodden of Europe. These words have a distinctly embarrassing ring in the ears of many Americans; and it is an interesting comment on the U.S. today that foreigners should take them more seriously than...
...time" they are put to dam building, construction of primitive factories, or industrial labor. All members of the commune get regular military training, and even when not on duty they must move by the numbers. At Chao Ying commune in Honan, according to an enthusiastic Red newsman, "assembly bells ring and whistles blow at daybreak. In about a quarter of an hour the peasants line up. At the command of company and squad leaders, the teams march to the fields, holding flags. One no longer sees peasants in groups of two or three smoking and going slowly and leisurely...
...stage. The Flute Player, which tells the story of the Pied Piper against a tape of a children's chorus played at double speed. Three years ago his opera Imagery of Saint-Michel created a scandal in Venice, chiefly because the action takes place in a prizefight ring, with Archangel Michael represented by a contralto dressed in a boxer's dressing gown...