Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stage for the Murphy-Adams-Shrout three ring circus. Murphy, with his championship style readily apparent, ran away with the one-meter diving. Shrout had no trouble winning the 200 free, and Adams edged out Navy's Bruce Rachor in the 50-yeard free to give Harvard a commanding lead...
...idea of building a steel complex in the middle of sugar-beet fields, which led to the creation of the city of Salzgitter (pop. 120,000), was Reichsmarshal Hermann Göring's; the plants bore his name when opened in the early days of World War II. The West German government inherited the war-damaged plants, renamed them Salzgitter AG, and nursed them back at a cost of more than $1 billion. Salzgitter provided work for some 70,000 people in a tense and economically weak area and showed a modest profit after it was rebuilt...
Such diligent documentation also characterizes Trageédie's rich farrago of Gaullicisms. De Gaulle may indeed disavow everything in the book, but nearly every acerbic quip and egocentric rumination has the ring of authentic Gaullist hubris. The general emerges as imperious in private as he is in public, but he seems even more petulant and petty. A sampling of his views...
...prototype at an army camp, rounded up some of the country's best athletes and let them try to cross the barriers without interference. None could makeit. Ulbricht has already completed nearly a third of what he calls his "modern border," hopes to rebuild the entire 99.5-mile ring around West Berlin...
...Smith College Sophomore Julie Nixon, 19, Dick Nixon's younger daughter. The youngsters, who will not marry until after graduation, were only casual friends in Washington but have been seeing each other steadily since they found themselves at neighboring colleges; at Thanksgiving, David presented Julie with a diamond ring. Still, no announcement was made, Julie recalled, until her father "called me before he went on a TV show to find out what he should do if he was asked about the engagement. I told him he should just go ahead and say we were engaged-because...