Word: ringing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...students chanted slogans and handed literature to faculty members entering the building for their 4 p.m. meeting. The protesters formed a ring around the hall but made no attempt to block any entrances...
...comp, the powers that be bestow upon you a title worthy of your achievement, a title that testifies to your position as the near equal of the entrenched establishment. The results are frequently rather interesting. For instance, "Official Poster Designer, Hasty Pudding Theatricals 161" has a rather Olympic ring to it, I think, while "Sackbut" tends a bit more to the je ne sais quoi...
...choice protesters ring the pro-lifers, trying to cover them up with placards, so that the TV cameras register support for the clinics. The pro- choicers chant and demand the arrest of the pro-lifers: "Read 'em their rights, and take 'em away." Each group has its grisly signs -- aborted fetuses on one side, women's corpses bloody from illegal abortions on the other. It is a noisy scene, hymns vs. chanted slogans, with both sides resorting to bullhorns to get above the din (and the police finally adding their loudspeakers). The task of the police is first to detach...
...Gerry Cooney will return to the boxing ring...
Accustomed to the godlike treatment accorded surgeons, Koop was stunned by the viciousness of Washington, which has neither gods nor heroes. Every day he would go to his temporary office on the seventh floor at the Department of Health and Human Services. Every day the phone wouldn't ring. His wife, uprooted from Philadelphia, waited in their small sublet wondering whether to unpack. One day Koop returned to find tears rolling down her face, a critical newspaper article on her lap. He considered leaving, but Betty persuaded him to stay. The two had been through a lot -- long years...