Word: rings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other Western diplomats in Rome as energetic and highly visible, if somewhat unversed in Italian politics and culture. Toon, however, may have a point about the standoffish Gavin, who keeps a low profile and is known for his hot tem per in dealing with staff and press. Refer ring to his country's best-known comedian, one Mexican official suggested...
Cato Douglass, the novel's slow-burning narrator, has suffered racial prejudice, the sweetened indignities of tokenism and the usual wear and tear of encroaching middle age. He is a writer whose resume has a familiar ring: World War II combat veteran, college on the G.I. Bill, Greenwich Village, Paris, Spain, Bread Loaf and finally a niche in a university English department. (Williams himself is a professor of English at Rutgers University...
...hurt in the blaze. However, the alarm failed to sound, even though students and union officials attempted to ring the alarm. This malfunction prompted concern among fire and safety officials that many occupants received little or no warning of the danger...
...this 33-sq.-mi. secondary ring of destruction, almost everyone is a casualty. Across the Detroit River in Windsor, Canadians strolling the promenade are severely burned and then pounded by fragments from Detroit's Renaissance Center, hurled across the river by 160-m.p.h. winds...
...OBJECTS will deteriorate, the characters will fade from memory, and what will remain, is meaning. "Crime Does Not Pay," the banner on Boston's second largest daily the day Locke went to jail, is the first and simplest that comes to mind. But it does not ring true. If anything, Locke's case should call attention to a disease currently pervading the current administration. Recurrent charges against aides to Gov. Edward J. King, and King's continued insistence on ignoring a major corruption report, suggest that Bery Locke was just an unlucky scapegoat. And von Bulow's trial was sensational...