Word: ranging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...side by side on the White House lawn beaming with a newfound, very special relationship. On Carter's part, it was first of all sheer gratitude for the most forthright, unequivocal support he has received from any ally; and in the gloom of a dark December her message rang especially sweet. "At times like this, you are entitled to look to your friends," she roundly declared. "We are your friends. We do support you; we shall support you. Let there be no doubt about that...
...four weeks, the U.S. has experienced an outpouring of patriotism it has not seen in years. Americans deluged the White House with endorsements of Carter's policy toward Iran. Across the country, people rang church bells and wore white armbands to show sympathy for the hostages...
...lights went out, then on again. A phone rang and we were told that police were on their way. Six minutes later, another phone call said General Zia was sending reinforcements...
...runners approached a newspaper office that had been destroyed by bombs the previous night, a dozen policemen braced for trouble. Shots rang out, and soon army reinforcements arrived in armored personnel carriers, firing at the activists and running over bystanders in the process, "People were falling like pins in a bowling alley," said one horrified shopkeeper. By the tune the shooting ended six hours later, the streets were littered with 32 bodies, and the country had slipped one step closer to anarchy...
...seven years since the fall of I.O.S., which he started in the 1950s and built into the world's largest offshore investment com bine. At its peak in the late 1960s, I.O.S. managed assets totaling more than $2 billion in mutual funds alone; armies of I.O.S. "reps" rang doorbells everywhere to persuade people to put their savings into one or another of I.O.S.'s 130 in vestment outlets. Cornfeld, a onetime social worker, proclaimed that "everyone can be a millionaire." As if to prove it, he lived a sybaritic life in a Geneva man sion built by Napoleon...