Word: bell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...full supply of ammunition. Since taking command of the division a year ago, Abrams has weeded out some 200 officers and men who did not shape up to his standards. Abrams tries every day to get away from the paperwork at his headquarters in Frankfurt, climb aboard his personal Bell helicopter and whirl off to inspect everyone in a unit from bird colonel to buck private. "No one is more deliberate in planning for war," says General Bruce Clarke of Abrams. "No one is more violent in execution...
...ridden to Appomattox with Robert E. Lee-was barely able to feed his eleven children. "Character is all I have to give you," he told his sons. "Be a man." Sam went off to East Texas College, paid his own way by sweeping floors and ringing the school bell. Before he left home, his father pressed $25-the family savings-into his hand...
...other five incumbents strongly supported in the past, have all heard the bell and started to come out of their respective corners. Poster for poster, Councilor Walter J. Sullivan's advertising has been the most in evidence. A sign of large dimensions dominates his front lawn. Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci has displayed a marked increase in his usual close scrutiny of all issues. Most recently he has looked into the legality of the acting City Clerk and the injustice of a $5 fine for temporary parking at bus stops...
Movie number two is Clement's portrait of Eden. His cameras follow Phillipe's sloop Marge along the lush Italian coast from Rome to Sicily. From the Mediterranean setting he creates not so much a background as a circumscribed universe which encloses the action in a glass bell of almost suffocating beauty...
...self-conscious note on the dust jacket informs that Author Goodman saw Army service during the war "but all of it in the U.S.," suggesting that The End of It might be just another attempt to ring the bell of Adano with a ballpoint pen. But he has collected his material with all the thorough absorption of a Walter Lord assembling data on the voyage of the Titanic, and after a turgid beginning in which the book nearly founders in the rhetoric of Why and Wherefore, he writes closely and often superbly, offering on the side a fascinating lesson...