Word: rung
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...marble surroundings of the Federal Reserve Building, Harry Hopkins and his staff of 35 men settled down to spend $7,000.000,000, re-arm the democracies, and stop Hitler. In late 1938, when Hopkins' WPA was wrenched by charges of waste, political corruption and Communism, Franklin Roosevelt had rung the bell, dragged Hopkins to a neutral corner, saved him from an angry Senate. Now, as the bells tolled for whole democracies, Hopkins had been sent again into the fight, armed with the $7,000,000,000 and the complete trust of the President...
...slow show saved by some top-rung acting. Oliva de Haviland proffers a pleasing new approach, abandoning Melanie's sweet-souled idealism for a rougher characterization. Alan Hale as a street-cleaner and wife-wolfer is huge and gives the customers a few hearty giggles. Cagney's successful plodding is beautifully contrasted against the strawberry blonde's hypocritical and disastrous social climbing...
Assuming their place on the bottom rung of the Big Three ladder, the grapplers collapsed before a strong Eli delegation, 19 to 11, at New Haven Saturday afternoon. Simultaneously, the Freshmen were swamped by their undefeated Blue rivals...
...Elis knocked the Varsity down a rung in league standings, from fourth to fifth place, by hanging a 1364 score over a 1346, and at the same time trounced the Yardlings...
...theory at them in great gobs, had put them through weekly examinations. In classroom they had been confronted with the placarded great sayings of soldiers (Napoleon: It is an axiom of military science that the army which remains behind its entrenchments is beaten.). And constantly in their ears had rung the exasperated, encouraging, profane cry of the sergeants: Work, not magic, makes a soldier. (Hey, you, quit dopin' off-you can't learn it lying down...