Word: ringing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While lines like "Men aren't all bad, just 92 per cent bad" ring hollow, worshippers of Texan jargon strike oil in Whorehouse. But you can find choicer idioms in the glorious novels of Peter Gent and Dan Jenkins. Those novels aren't pretentious; this play is. It strains to hard to mock every Texan myth that the effect is laughable, more than laudable. So see it and laugh--after all, John Connally may be the next president. And John Tower reportedly liked it. Hot damn...
There have even been obscene phone call experts who memorize the numbers of adjacent phone booths in the halls and ring up when a woman enters. Such incidents are often not reported. Comments veteran Library Security Officer Sivert Olenius: "We can't do a thing unless the person presses charges." Hardly anybody has the time, or the stomach...
...heavily Catholic Boston, the Protestant Massachusetts Council of Churches and Jewish groups donated money to help the Catholic archdiocese pay for the visit. Among the gifts for John Paul: a matching silver ring and pectoral cross bearing the message UT UNAM SIMUS (that...
...flying over Dublin's airport in a cross-shaped formation. President Patrick Hillery, Prime Minister Jack Lynch and senior Cabinet ministers were on hand to greet John Paul. In keeping with modern papal protocol, Prime Minister Lynch and his Catholic colleagues did not kiss the Pope's ring, but merely shook his hand and bowed...
Although some experts have said Stonehenge's builders could predict solar eclipses by making observations from certain positions near the main ring, Gingerich said he is reluctant to accept such a theory. Even though eclipses can be roughly predicted with the stone formation, ancient peoples may not have observed this fact or understood the phenomenon, he added...