Word: belle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deeply distrustful of a strong government. Too frequently and too recently, Frenchmen have had to man the barricades against oppression. Since 1789 France has lived under four republics, two emperors, one consulate, one directorate and three monarchies. In the France of the peasant and the petit bourgeois, where the bell jangles on the shop door as the customer enters, there is a deep-seated "incivisme," an indifference to and distrust of any government at all. The designers of the Fourth Republic (1946) provided what France wanted: a legislative body with absolute control over any executive, however strong his personality...
...begin to act like oversized airplane propellers. As the aircraft gains forward speed, its wing begins to contribute lift. When the rotors have been turned through 90° and are facing fully forward, all the lift comes from the wing, as in a standard airplane. The conversion in the Bell takes about 15 seconds and is said to be smooth and easy. Top speed in horizontal flight: more than 175 m.p.h...
Deputy to the Under Secretary of the Army Frank H. Higgins hailed Bell's convertiplane, the XV-3,* as a possible answer to the Army's air requirements. For use in rugged country, the Army needs an aircraft that can land and take off anywhere like a helicopter. But helicopters are notoriously slow, and their flailing rotors waste fuel because they are comparatively inefficient sources of lift. A convertiplane on the general plan of the XV3 mav prove to have the speed and economy of the fixed-wing airplane without sacrificing the special advantages of the rotary wing...
...Much further advanced than Bell's jet-propelled convertiplane (TIME...
...THEATER) to star in Charles Jackson's The Lost Weekend. There was far more artistry in Montgomery's careful delineation of the tortures and cravings of a chronic alcoholic than in the oversimplified happy ending. Lux Video Theater supplied another revival with John Hersey's A Bell for Adano, the prototype of all scripts about relations between lovable U.S. officers and equally lovable natives of occupied countries. Edmond O'Brien was effective as the idealistic Major Joppolo, and Charles Bronson played that familiar folk hero, the tough sergeant with the heart of gold...