Word: bell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...early 1930s, he was first confronted with these extraordinary churches, with their rounded, curving walls that follow the turning of the roads, their thick, often windowless outer shells looking like the ramparts of an ancient fortification, their arches spanning across narrow alleyways, and topped with strange pigeon-coop bell towers...
...right to sing them for every kind of group." The three songs--Midnight Special, Hammer Song, and Wasn't That a Time--were about as American as the HUAC could ask for: a prison song collected by Leadbelly, a song about "the hammer of justice, bell of freedom, a song about love...," and a song about patriotism in times when America was threatened by tyranny...
Last week. Budget Director David Bell told Congress that Kennedy's revision had been none too bearish. Despite a one-shot windfall of $587 million in West German debt prepayment, supplemental highway, defense and space spending will increase the deficit to at least $2.169 billion. Next year will be even worse. Originally figured at $2.8 billion, the Administration's estimated 1962 deficit, in many current estimates, comes out to $4 billion...
Died. James Ford Bell, 81, a milling executive's son, who in 1928 merged four faltering companies to form General Mills, now world's largest miller, as President and Chairman from its birth until his retirement in 1947 made it a housewife's boon by marketing a pantryful of prepared foods (Wheaties) and baking materials (Betty Crocker cake mixes), later entered such diverse fields as industrial chemicals, precision instruments, high-altitude research balloons; of a heart disease; in Minneapolis...
...Whitby School last week, the children, uninterrupted by any "rest" bell, worked happily, rarely disturbed one another, automatically tidied up after each task. To learn the continents, three-year-olds used special jigsaw puzzles. To strengthen muscles for early writing, they traced complex metal plates that also introduced formal geometrical shapes. To practice the alphabet, one tot used big cards with the letters pasted on in sandpaper that he could feel. Four-year-olds used cut-out letters to spell the names of animals in pictures; many wrote the names, and several five-year-olds sat quietly reading books...