Word: rung
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crimson mermen should have no difficulty in taking Greenwood and thus extending for another year the long string of victories Harvard swimmers have rung up against their traditional rivals who hall from Gardner, Mass...
...TIME'S account described the first week of mass daylight raids in mid-September, when Londoners' reactions showed they were not yet bomb-hardened. They did undoubtedly harden, and they naturally grew cockier when mass daylight raids stopped after the British defense had rung up high daily scores in planes shot down. Far from cocky is the frank recital below of a man whose home...
...past ten years Ashurst has scarcely stirred from Washington. This year he did not even bother to go back and campaign in the primary. Few, least of all Ashurst, thought this indifference would make any difference. But last week, when the primary poll was counted, the curtain was rung down on the long Senatorial career of Henry Fountain Ashurst...
...came out for Willkie for President. Columnist Ray Clapper asserted that people were filled with pain and disappointment at the bad delivery, judged Willkie "by the Roosevelt standard of radio crooning," but changed their minds if they read the speech. "Not many major political utterances in modern times have rung with such courage as this Willkie acceptance speech. . . . [He] has destroyed utterly the fugitive dreams of appeasement. ... A smaller man than Willkie . . . would have paralyzed us in the presence of real danger. Willkie has risen above that. He has placed national interests above politics in this crisis...
Reminding Columbia University alumni that Dante "reserved the lowest rung in hell for those who were 'neither for God nor against Him but only for themselves,' " British Ambassador to the U. S. Lord Lothian added "That is one reason why the democracies are in hell today...