Word: rung
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...true of most plays that some, if not all, of the characters undergo a big change by the time the final 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...
...House of Commons, Eisenhower arose to the drumming of open hands on desk tops to make the definitive speech of his visit. He came bearing concessions but no apologies. In a chamber that has rung on occasion with harsh judgments of Washington's words and works, he defended in plain words the policies that he was not prepared to alter. Items...
...m.p.h. from a high-flying missile. Next he will try to recover an orbiting satellite, to prove that the drag and heat problems on re-entry have been solved. He will send up and recover bigger and bigger animals, with chimpanzees on the top of the ladder, only one rung below man. Says Dr. Stapp: "When we've done the whole thing with three consecutive successes, getting the chimps back alive, then we'll be ready to send...
Weakling Oregon had outgained Ohio State (351 yds. to 304 yds.), and rung up more first downs (21 to 19), but Buckeye Coach Woody Hayes was satisfied. Said he: "The better team wins, always. And we won." Oregon Coach Len "Cazz" Casanova, who was carried off the field by his players, had a simple explanation for their great game: "We've been derided by everyone. I just told the boys I wanted to be proud of them after it was all over...
Until 11:20 the school was quiet. Then an alarm, ostensibly for a fire drill, was rung. The student body filed out of the school, onto the sidewalk directly in front of the block-long cordon. Only one Negro girl was seen among the white students. She laughed and sang school songs during the recess that followed, along with the other children...