Word: ringeing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fifth morning after Sputnik I changed military policy and practice for all time, a brand new U.S. Secretary of Defense, fresh from a world where Cheer is a product instead of an attitude, took over the cavernous office on Ring E, River Side, Third Floor, of the Pentagon...
Crazy Cowboys. Over Caracas at sunup the jets made lazy passes as a sign for disaffected army garrisons in the capital to rise up. Instead, tanks clanked up Urdaneta Avenue to ring presidential Miraflores Palace; 40-mm. antiaircraft guns sprouted from the roofs of the palace and the Defense Ministry across the street. At 11 a.m. four Sabre jets, three Vampires and three elderly light bombers began to cut through holes in the clouds and buzz the city low across rooftops. "Those crazy cowboys!" remarked a watching Pan American pilot from his poolside deck chair at the Hotel Tamanaco...
...reduce a kitchen to shambles in the simple act of trying to get a drink of water, or how two boys gravely fake taking a bath by wetting washrags and towels and tossing a handful of "turtle dirt" into the draining bathwater because "it leaves a good ring...
Councilor Charles A. Watson, who also tossed his hat in the ring, admitted last night that he had only one vote so far, his own. It is conceivable, though, that the C.C.A. bloc would switch its votes to Watson, rather than allow Sullivan's reelection...
...into quadrants composed of the qualities (moist, dry, cold and warm), and put in harmony with man's organs and appendages (Leo governs the heart; Pisces governs his feet) as well as his temperament (choleric, sanguine, phlegmatic or melancholic), the chart carries the zodiac year on the outer ring, the calendar on the inner ring, to be lined up with the center as a sort of ovaloid slide rule. Behind the Zodiac Man stands a near mirror image of a "Vein Man," another medical illustration, which usually indicates by dots the places appropriate for bleeding...