Word: bell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...With all due respect to the helicopter industry, permit us to take exception to your statement referring to the Bensen gyrocopter as "the closest thing to a flying chair yet made by man" [May 27]. Textron's Bell Aerosystems Company has been flying for nearly a year a rocket-propelled device known as the Flying Chair. In addition, Bell has developed another rocket-propelled device, the Pogo Stick. These devices have been flown more than 2,500 times with 100% reliability. The Flying Chair doesn't quite match the flight duration of Mr. Bensen's craft...
...Bell Aerosystems...
...cult still has expansive holdings, but it long ago misplaced both its proselytizing and promotional zeal. The House of David's barnstorming baseball team, its most renowned attraction for 25 years, was disbanded back in 1937. Also gone are Chic Bell's bearded touring musicians. The colony's picturesque Benton Harbor amusement park once attracted 200,000 visitors a year, now draws fewer than 30,000. So depleted are the ranks that outsiders have to be hired to operate the shabby House of David Hotel in downtown Benton Harbor. Sighs pigtailed Tom Dewhirst, 58, head...
They were shocked that the College had provided bell hope for them; but most of the class willingly surrendered their luggage to the undergraduate porters, and then negotiated to have breakfast delivered to them...
...standard Freudian trimmings. Her father, born in the Polish town of Grabow in East Prussia, became a professor of entomology at Boston University and is presented in her poetry as an intellectual tyrant with "a love of the rack and the screw." The mother of the heroine in The Bell Jar, an autobiographical novel published in England just before Sylvia's death, is described as a metallic New England schoolmarm. Little Sylvia tried to be Daddy's darling. At three she knew the Latin names of hundreds of insects-whenever a bumblebee bumbled by, the pretty little poppet...