They'd talk for 45 seconds, an aide would tell him a congressman or governor was on the other line, and he'd abruptly ring off: "Daddy's gotta go!"

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Darling, who is from Kansas City, Missouri, said she was devastated when she realized she'd lost her ring.

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Speaking to Women's Wear Daily in August, she admitted that she'd be hanging on to one ring.

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Every once in a while, when I was at home, the phone would ring and I'd be jolted by music until he came on.

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All these valleys boys who'd chased a fleeting dream of winning in the ring and then moved on.

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"I had a chat with Steve and he didn't like the fact I hadn't phoned him since he'd been away, but he didn't even ring me to say he was suspended, " he said.

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Sometimes I'd move the timer on the stove ahead so that the bell would ring and everybody would think, oh, well, that's - Keith can leave now and go outside.

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Some of it's not taking urgently enough some of these commitments and we'd like to see, for example, infrastructure spending kicked up and then ring-fenced.

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One man dug through the twisted metal and charred remains of what once was his home, searching for his wife's wedding ring and the family safe with a firefighter's hook he'd commandeered from his New York Fire Department job.

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He has explored crystal growth, and developed, with a specialist in nature-related algorithms, a 3-D program mimicking the way crystals actually grow over millions of years (with this particular program, he and the scientists he has been working with made virtual crystals grow directly on a ring-like structure on their computer, almost instantly, then manufactured them with a 3-D printer).

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