Word: rung
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night. Girls hate subways. Fine time to think of that. Why did he ever make this date in the first place? For a desperate split second he wished that the evening were in back of him and not all to come . . . and then, in spite of himself, he had rung the door bell...
...Ersatz" rubber is already being produced in this country by all the major American rubber companies and has proved even more durable than the national product for certain articles rung as gasoline hose, oil-retaining gaskets pump packing, deducing surfaces and bullet proof tanks...
When the great defeats began, and the "great army of the wounded" was hauled into Washington (Stanton was against an ambulance service), there was almost no way of caring for them. Churches were turned into hospitals and on Sundays the church bells could not be rung because of the masses of suffering below them...
...Matsuoka resigned from the Service. Some said he found diplomatic discipline galling to his lone-cat temperament, his American education a liability in a service dominated by Tokyo Imperial University graduates. True to form, he reappeared on a higher rung five months later, as director, later president, of that octopus, the South Manchuria Railway. The South Manchuria Railway was no mere private enterprise; half its money was Government money, its policies were the Government's. The Railway not only controlled some 1,300 kilometers of railroad, but operated steamships, harbors, coal mines, shale-oil plants, ironworks, chemical-fertilizer plants...
Aging noticeably after the German occupation and the closing of the Paris Herald office, the Sparrow nevertheless refused to budge. One evening a Nazi guard stopped him at the gate, told him curfew had long since rung. Said the Sparrow: "Where do you get that stuff?" and kept going. The guard called a Nazi officer. But the officer, too, was an "old pal"-they had met at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. So together he and the Sparrow toured what was left of the old "thirst emporiums...