Word: bell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...over, the desperate voice shouted into the telephone: "They are breaking into Xa Loi Pagoda. They are breaking into Xa Loi Pagoda." In the background, gunfire mingled with the confused screams of Buddhist monks and nuns and the clanging alarm of the huge brass gong that hangs in the bell tower of Saigon's largest pagoda. Suddenly the phone connection from the temple went dead...
Then Cleveland Indian Pitcher Gary Bell grazed the middle of Yankee Joe Pepitone. Pepitone trotted down to first base, but a hot verbal exchange with Bell sent him running out to the mound, and the dugouts boiled over. The field jammed spectacularly, but like the American League race, it was all show and not much action. Push a bit, swing a bit, yell a bit and it was over: Bell was fined $50 for deliberately throwing at the batter, Pepitone was accused of incitement to riot and later fined $50, but the Yankees won as usual, and the runaway...
...picture is a poem, a mood embodied. The mood is the mood of creature sadness, the poem is a love song to all things that live, a swan song for all things that die. In an old man's elegy resounds the angelus of an age, a passing bell for all mortality...
...labor-management relations have been brewing ever since 1957, when General Telephone & Electronics, the nation's largest telephone company after the Bell System, bought up the gentle and folksy Peninsular Telephone Co. The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers complained that General Telephone quickly moved to cut union benefits, dehumanized the company with its cost-slashing efficiencies. Florida's Railroad and Public Utilities Commission recently blamed General for cutting back service, and threatened fines unless it improved. Negotiating a new contract for 3,500 hourly workers this spring, management and labor found themselves far apart. Last month more than...
...tradition. In Lloyd's five-story London headquarters, where it moved only six years ago, reports of ships lost at sea are still registered with an elegant quill, and attendants are clad in scarlet coat and black collar. Important news is heralded by strokes from an ancient battleship bell-one stroke for bad news, two for good. Last week Lloyd's had some bad news: it suffered one of its worst losses in Britain's great train robbery (see THE WORLD). This week, however, it will report some cheerier tidings: annual premium income has risen...