Word: ringers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Luis Obispo to San Diego. Sacramento's Atlas Bomb Shelter is starting to merchandise a 35-ton prefab model for six that, depending on excavation costs, will sell for between $5,000 and $6,000. "We haven't done any advertising yet," crows Atlas' Boss Frank Ringer, "but even so, there's so much demand we can hardly keep up with...
Last week in the Warwick fire station. the counter on Dr. Anderson's gun clicked off the 500,00cth shot that he and his corpsmen have given in the past six years. Soon after, Dr. Anderson had to quit and let a corpsman relieve him; the trigger ringer on his right hand, despite a golfer's glove, was too painfully blistered for him to carry...
...Dippermouth Blues with such studious care that they even mastered the ascending intonation of the famous cry. "Oh, play that thing." near the record's end. And a jazz singer named Inge Brandenburg, 31, belted out her numbers with a phrasing and intonation that made her a dead ringer for Billie Holiday...
Through the years a parade of repellent characters have spat, scratched and scowled through the panels of Cartoonist Chester Gould's comic strip, Dick Tracy. There was Pruneface, a dead ringer for an exhumed cadaver; the Mole, a homicidal man-sized rodent who lived in a burrow; Itchy, who never stopped scratching; Measles, whose complexion resembled an aerial view of the Badlands; and, of course, that bottomless well of chaw juice, B. O. Plenty. Latest entry is Flyface, whose face is always surrounded by flies-and who has a mother and a nephew similarly convoyed. Last week this unsavory...