Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...turn purple and starts manufacturers pleading for secrecy. But there is no longer any hiding the fact that an epidemic of parking-meter jamming is sweeping the nation. Behind it are the flip-top cans now being used for beer and soft drinks. Each comes with a small pull-ring, which, when twisted free, is near enough to the size of a nickel to fit into a parking meter, either turning it on or jamming...
...wide sidewalk (the other three sides of the building will be set off by a sunken garden, giving a moatlike effect). Windows will be small, for security reasons, while on the E Street side the building is to be dominated by eight columns, with a two-story ring of offices joining them at the top-to hold the FBI's active security files. Explains Murphy Architect Stanley Gladych: "It is a strong, severe building, like a fortress. We tried to convey a sense of mystery about the organization...
...agents was the heresy of modernism-a broad term encompassing the efforts of certain scholarly priests and laymen to bring Catholic teaching into line with contemporary scientific and philosophic thought. In 1921, long after the leading modernists had been excommunicated, Pope Benedict XV sensibly suppressed Benigni's spy ring. The memory of modernism has been kept alive, however, by a solemn oath against the heresy* that every Catholic priest since 1910 has had to take before receiving holy orders. Last week, Vatican sources reported, Pope Paul VI decided to abolish the oath-taking requirement, which a generation of seminarians...
Perhaps the Vietnamese visitors will leave behind a few business lessons of their own. One dainty entrepreneur spotted a costume ring in a Cambridge jeweler's window. It caught her fancy and she went inside to buy it, Asian-style. As she explains it: "I ask how much. He says seven dollar. I offer three. He say no, seven. I offer him four-say no more. He sell for four...
...these pillars of our system. These are within our culture. Let's not argue about their validity; they certainly underlie a great deal of our efforts. What is the equivalent in the Chinese scene? Chinese culture is a far different mixture certainly. None of these terms is going to ring the same kind of bell. The Chinese equivalent probably begins with ethical teaching, elitist leadership--not egalitarian--and indoctrination in a community with a great sense of community stressing that rather than individualism, speaking in consensus and expecting a consensus and conformity rather than diverity or individualism, and winding...