Word: rung
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...game fish are the topmost rung of a long fish-eat-fish biological ladder. At the bottom are one-celled organisms-bacteria, algae, protozoa-which form the prey of slightly larger creatures (tiny crustaceans). These get eaten by the next size creatures-and so on up the line...
...dramatic technique and swiftness of dialogue Elmer Rice has rung the bell with his new comedy, "Dream Girl," providing Betty Field with a long and complex part which she handles with admirable skill...
...first atomic bomb had been dropped. A few seconds after the flash, the shock wave from the blast reached the Enola Gay, several miles away, and rocked it like a giant burst of flak. From the men who had rung up the curtain on a new era in history burst nothing more original than an awed...
Thus did 19-year-old Marta Skavronsky, orphan daughter of a Lithuanian serf, climb the next-to-last rung of a ladder rising from a peasant's hovel to the throne of Russia...
...thing the News forgot to tell its readers: how Jimmy Walker felt about it. That skinny, glib, ingratiating Irishman, who at 63 still looks like an aging musi-comedy juvenile, has rung up many a useful dollar since he left the mayor's office in a hurry in 1932, just as graft investigations by Judge Samuel Seabury and Governor Franklin Roosevelt were getting uncomfortably close to him. Next week Jimmy's $20,000-a-year contract as "impartial Czar" of the cloak-&-suit industry runs out, but he already has another job, the presidency of a new phonograph...