Word: rung
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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William Birrell Franlce, 65, top-rung accountant and retired New York businessman (onetime chairman of General Shale Products Corp. and plumbing-making John Simmons Co.), moved up from Navy Under Secretary to Secretary...
Lieut. Gray: The bare, cold, prophetic words of Auden-"We must love one another or die"-have rung in my mind on several of these frigid, sleepless nights of late...
...urge among swarming lower-class families to put at least one member on the bottom rung of the new middle class stirs all across Mexico. In Portales, a section of Mexico City, one such family lives over the garage behind a big house. The father is caretaker for his landlord. The Indian mother and all the family-except one-spend their days squatting on a curbstone around an open charcoal brazier, making and selling tacos (tortillas rolled around fillings of beans, meat or chicken). The exception is a teen-age daughter, who wears nylons and goes to a commercial school...
...country where history often repeats itself because its citizens react, like Pavlov's dogs, to bells rung by historical parallels, the Presidency of the Fifth Republic might well travel the same road as the Presidency of the Third...
...true of most plays that some, if not all, of the characters undergo a big change by the time the curtain is rung down. Here, curiously, every character is just the same at the end of the play as at the start. Yet this does not yield a vacuum. Events do transpire; and the essential elements of conflict and suspense are not lacking...