Word: rung
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...arms-control talks in Geneva. Soviet Delegate Zorin charged the U.S. with "hypocrisy, an aggressive act against peace, pushing the world closer to an abyss of atomic war." There were no immediate demonstrations in Moscow or in Communist China, although the Chicoms sounded angriest of all. Peking newspaper Ta Rung Pao charged that the tests showed that President Kennedy is "more vicious, more cunning and more adventurist than his predecessor...
...proposal to award Harvard diplomas to Radcliffe undergraduates moved another rung up the University's administrative ladder yesterday with a decision by the Corporation to approve the change...
Some of the best yearly profits were rung up by the oil industry, where machines now run entire refineries and petrochemical plants. JERSEY STANDARD gained 10% to $758 million, TEXACO 10% to $430 million, STANDARD OF INDIANA 6% to $154 million. Said Senior Vice President George James of SOCONY MOBIL, whose net jumped 16% to $211 million: "Staff reduction is primarily responsible. We have been carrying on an intensive job method study, then offering early retirement plans wherever we can weed out unneeded workers...
...After that, William behaved well for a time, but soon let himself be led back to Wetherby's, where false friends doped him and picked his pocket of nearly ?70 in company funds. The next morning, "I passed some minutes in a state little short of despair; I rung a bell for the purpose of ascertaining where I had got to, and other particulars. No one answered until at last a yawning man made his appearance, immediately exclaiming, 'Good God, how drunk and riotous you was, Sir! I never saw anything to equal...
...apparent to Leinsdorf that Symonette "could not get any music out of his throat." When Symonette finally croaked out the line "Aus meinem Angesicht bist du verbannt" ("From my presence you are banished"), Leinsdorf ordered the curtain rung down...