Word: rung
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Surface & Depth. When news of his recall reached the White House, a hurried telephone call went to the little brick headquarters on Embassy Row-very nearly the first time the telephone had rung there in nine months. General Hsiung, finally, received an invitation to talk to Franklin Roosevelt. With his interpreter, Captain M. H. Robert Lee, he went to the White House, cooled his heels for a half hour, finally spoke to the President...
Campaigner. In Kansas City, Patrol man Mellvill Norton, campaigning for traffic safety, watched for jaywalkers on the street, rung their hands, warmly congratulated them on still being alive...
...actress does not belie the woman. Ruth Gordon has a sharp tongue in her head, no coy sweetness, no fake modesty. Told she stands on the theater's top rung, she retorts: "It's about time." Told that The Three Sisters will be a model for aspiring actresses, she snaps: "It should be." Asked to compare her acting with Cornell's and Anderson's, she counters: "Do you say that Renoir is two inches behind Manet, or Degas a foot ahead?" She snarls at Nature: "I don't care if a flower grows upside down...
...college football season characterized by colossal upsets, the Dixie cup runneth over. Last week-while Ohio State, Texas Christian and the Army Cadets toppled from the ranks of the undefeated and untied-two of the three big-time teams remaining on the top rung represented Southern colleges, located within 70 miles of one another: the University of Georgia and Georgia Tech...
...this size, wealth and glamor, as top man of West Coast boilermakers, is squarejawed, hotheaded Thomas John Crowe, 47, IBBMISBWHA's Pacific Coast international representative. He started as an apprentice at 13, earning 10? an hour heating rivets at Parsons, Kans., and has climbed the union ladder rung by rung. Belligerent, tough, willing to crack heads if necessary to get what he wants, Tom Crowe has the reputation of a square shooter. West Coast management knows him as a man who will keep his word, once given. When welders tried to break away from IBBMISBWHA in July...