Word: rung
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Foreign Service has also lagged in recruitment at the bottom rung. In two years not a single new junior officer has been hired, although in 1952 applications were invited and 2,701 were received...
...were unsuccessful. On a clear day, the bells could be heard for fifteen miles, and if conditions were exceptionally favorable, the radius of total destruction was reputed to be forty-two. House Master Julian Coolidge, who hardly shared President Lowell's enthusiasm for the bells, once complained that when rung they cracked his plaster...
HOTELMAN Conrad Hilton has rung up his second big capital gain in less than a month (TIME, Oct. 19). Since he needed cash for his new $14 million Beverly Hilton which is scheduled to open in 1954, Hilton sold the 300-room Town House in Los Angeles to the Beverly Hills Development Corp., then leased it back under a management contract. Sale price: $3,600,000, four times what he paid for the hotel...
...valley of death. The airlift that saved it was his finest hour. While the admiring world watched, the first moments of greatness touched the mayor of Berlin, raising him into the company of those who catch and express the spirit of their time. As Churchill's voice had rung from Britain in the dark days of 1940, so the voice of Ernst Reuter rang out from blockaded Berlin, defying the enemy, rousing the free. "Nothing is going to be conquered here-" he thundered. "This city cannot be conquered- We will defend this old Berlin with our bodies...
...points awarded each particular activity. It is interesting to note that captains of the major sports share the top point award (10) with editors-in-chief of the weekly paper and the yearbook, plus the manager of football. Managers of the other major sports are on the next point rung down along with the editor-in-chief of the humor magazine, The Banter...