Word: rung
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crack shots-an old expression taken from competition shooting, in which a bell was rung to announce a bull...
Summer & Torches. At the opposite pole, antiwar groups finally feel that they have tapped a rich lode of pacifism in the U.S. public. Agencies to aid draft evaders dot the nation like acne. The "Viet Nam Summer" movement, largely sponsored by a group of Harvard professors, has rung doorbells in 46 states urging political action to end the war. From Ann Arbor to Boston and in 13 other communities, it has tried to get antiwar resolutions onto the ballots for this fall's municipal elections...
...said in a quite different context, "Nothing in human life and history is much more thrilling or of more ancient and universal experience than the antithesis of the individual and the crowd." It was Sophocles, too, who had Antigone affianced to Creon's son Haemon. Other changes, too, were rung in antiquity. For instance, in Euripides' Antigone, of which only parts survive, a tragic outcome was avoided through the outlandish intercession of the god Dionysus, and, incredibly, Antigone and Haemon were happily married. So a strong tradition of artistic license existed from the beginning...
...short (5 ft. 4 in.), white-haired professor perched on a small stool, his feet hooked in the lower rung, his hands extracting scrawled lecture notes from a manila envelope. Isidor Isaac Rabi (rhymes with Bobby) gazed stolidly up at his 30 selected students in Columbia University's tiered, 286-seat Pupin physics lecture hall. His eyes suddenly wrinkled with laughter, self-inspired by a quick quip; then his voice turned passionate as he summed up his lifetime concern that science "should be the foundation for the community...
...Actually, many of them do a great deal better than that. Or so it seemed last week as Parliament was embroiled in a brouhaha triggered by the news that on a contract for overhauling aircraft engines, the Bristol Siddeley division of the Hawker Siddeley Group had rung up profits...