Word: rings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...North, no one can be sure of what the erratic officer will say. But the big question for North will be one that has the ring of Watergate: What did the President know...
Cynics were quick to ask what the country has been doing since he first made that vow at the outset of the Cuban revolution. Indeed, many of the problems facing Cuba have a distinctly familiar ring. World prices are sorely depressed for its two leading hard-currency earners, oil from the Soviet Union, which it exports on the spot market, and sugar. Moreover, bad weather has damaged the sugar crop; in recent years Cuba has been forced to buy shipments from other countries to meet its sugar-export quotas to the Soviet bloc. The resultant drop in foreign earnings...
...season progresses, a new phase of the game will begin -- trading. Phones will ring at all hours. Wives will issue ultimatums. Owners traveling in Europe, Asia or northern Canada will search desperately for box scores. The circulation of USA Today, the best day-to-day source of baseball intelligence, will soar. Thousands of man-hours will be expended thinking about baseball, talking about baseball and contemplating baseball. But until tomorrow, when the major leagues start play, things will be quiet. "You've read the book," quips the Tooners' Larry Fine, traded by Reuters from New York to London during...
...older sister Rosa, who was living at the convent, were given five minutes to pack. Within a week the two women were at the gates of the Auschwitz death camp in Poland. They died in the gas chamber on Aug. 9. In words that today ring with heroism, Sister Teresa told Rosa in Echt, "Come. We are going for our people." In those words rest the very paradox of Sister Teresa: Were her people Jews or Catholics? The Carmelite nun, 50 when she died, was born Edith Stein, a Jew, and converted to Roman Catholicism when...
...been published in the journal Socialist Legality even before the trial took place. But the Soviet evidence against him was overwhelming. In denying Linnas' plea that, in the name of humanity, he not be sent back, a three-judge panel in New York City declared that "noble words . . . ring hollow when spoken by a man who ordered the extermination of innocent men, women and children kneeling at the edge of a mass grave." Last week the Supreme Court in a 6-to-3 vote refused to extend a temporary order blocking the expulsion...