Word: ringeing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...glitter to the interior. Stone hung a mesh of thousands of sparkling, gold-anodized aluminum disks from the lower spokes of the roof. The hub, a tension ring 63 ft. across and weighing 25 tons, is dramatically suspended in midair and open to the sky above the central pool. To give the structure the maximum look of lightness, a trellis of light steel straps was used to hold the 42-ft.-high plastic walls rigid against the wind. Says Stone: "I'm not given to flexing my structural muscles publicly. But you can't say this building doesn...
Still seeking challengers for Republican Irving Ives's New York Senate seat, at stake this fall, the Democratic-allied Liberal Party tentatively tossed one well-known Homburg in the ring. The boomed candidate: TV's furrow-browed Edward Roscoe (See It Now) Murrow. Gruffed Murrow: "I have neither the intention nor the appetite to run for elective office," would not deny that more persuasion might change his mind. Added Murrow's good friend, New York Governor Averell Harriman (who has approved former Air Force Secretary Thomas K. Finletter): "It would be an interesting thing...
...Redskins keep coming. "We'll stand them off," says one embattled paleface. "If we don't, save a ball for the women and children." The reader can have himself a different kind of ball with this book-if he will only persevere. Versatile Author Taylor (Center Ring, W. C. Fields) follows in the footsteps of a master of the picaresque. Tobias Smollett's The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771) was a superbly comical novel, in letter form, about a family traveling around England in the days of highwaymen and top-heavy coaches. Author Taylor's book...
...majority leader of the Senate of the United States ... I plan not only to live up to my responsibilities, but to discharge them as effectively as I can." Three hours later he was back to offer his resolutions on military construction and public works. "I'd like to ring the bells and notify the Senators that I'm making a statement-it's rather important...
Avenue to Madison Square Garden. There, cherubic Union Boss Dave Dubinsky, his arms windmilling from atop a prizefight ring, officially proclaimed the garment industry's first general strike since...