Word: ringing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...toward the skindiver. Koerner had in mind the sort of arduous wooing found in fairy tales, where the king sets a series of tasks for the princess' suitor. In this case, Koerner says, the king may be the lifeguard in the boat, and he may have flung a ring into the water for the youth to retrieve. The man with the shadow-casting device, such as moviemakers employ, may be attempting to frustrate the lover from afar...
...selecting the 2,240, a panel of five judges* relied mainly on a single gauge: "the decibel ring of the name." Noisy enough for mention: Christine Jorgensen (irresolutely described by the Register as both "he" and "she") and Zackerly (pitchman on a TV horror show). Left out as presumably not noisy enough: Robert Kintner, Allen Drury, Fabian. Notable inclusion: Cleveland Amory. Says Amory: "Frankly, I don't know whether it's more embarrassing to be in the book...
...Charging like an affronted rhino, Gene Fullmer, 28, roughhoused flustered Challenger Spider Webb, 28, around the ring in Logan, Utah, to win a unanimous decision, keeping the middleweight championship of the National Boxing Association (recognized by all states but New York and Massachusetts, which still hold Sugar Ray Robinson champion...
...interpret their observations. They suspect that the hydrogen disk at the center of the galaxy is rich in stars, but they cannot see them. The stars and hydrogen, they say, are presumably held together by gravitation and revolve more or less as a unit. The outstreaming hydrogen beyond the ring is hard to explain. They calculate that at the present rate of flow, all the hydrogen should have been drained from the nucleus in a mere 10 million to 100 million years, which is only a tiny part of the life span of a galaxy. Since the nucleus...
...medicine's continuing war against cigarettes as the principal cause of lung cancer, Surgeon General Leroy Burney of the U.S. Public Health Service was back in the ring last week, punching hard in another round. In the A.M.A. Journal, Dr. Burney reiterated that 1) all smokers have a higher death rate from lung cancer than nonsmokers, 2) heavy and long-continued cigarette smoking goes with the highest lung-cancer death rate, and 3) it helps somewhat to quit smoking, even after years of indulgence. But this time Dr. Burney went farther, added: "No method of treating tobacco or filtering...