Word: rung
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Evidence of the delicacy of the situation came in the President's prompt public repudiation of an OWI overseas broadcast which had categorized King Vittorio Emanuele and Premier Pietro Badoglio as Fascists . The general tone the U.S. Government will maintain was rung in the Fireside Chat: "Our terms to Italy are still the same as our terms to Germany and Japan-'unconditional surrender.' We will have no truck with Fascism in any way, in any shape or manner.. We will permit no vestige of Fascism to remain...
...Nationalist Revival, a mishmash of the dwindling remainders of Coughlinites, anti-Semites, dissident Republicans and the old America First crowd, seemed to have notified the Tribune of the meeting's prime importance, because the Tribune sent aging Arthur Evans, its top-rung reporter on local politics, to cover the meeting. The news was coyly buried on p. 3, did not mention the McCormick boom until the second paragraph...
Measures time not our time, rung by the unhurried...
Another attitude concerns bankers. Circumstance, politics and the bankers themselves put the calling for a while on the bottom rung of the ladder of public esteem. If they are no longer on the very lowest rung, it is not because the politicians have offered them a helping hand. On the contrary, politicians have taken over many private banking functions, with results in some cases that still await a critical examination. Some bankers have presumably become wiser for their bitter experiences, but they lack the opportunity to prove their wisdom and to attract new, able personnel. The public can well afford...
...atmosphere redolent of honest sweat 180 palm-powdered athletes, clothed in bathing trunks, tennis flannels, track shorts and acrobats' tights, flipped around the gymnasium of Manhattan's West Side Y.M.C.A. like desperate fish. They were top-rung U.S. gymnasts competing in one of the oldest and least publicized of national tournaments: the 58th annual amateur U.S. gymnastic championships...