Word: belle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hearing of the affront to their neighbor, the vintner's friends decided to arouse the town by ringing the bell of St. Martin's Church. Immediately, scores of citizens sprang to arms, started shooting at the scholars with their bows. This brought forth the chancellor of the university to "appease the tumult," but the townsmen started shooting at him, too. The chancellor ordered the bell of St. Mary's to be rung. By nightfall he had an army of archers...
Next day after dinner, a group of townsmen attacked some gownsmen. Once again the bell of St. Martin's rang, and the bell of St. Mary's answered. Inns and taverns were pillaged, books were torn to shreds, some of the university halls were fired. The situation grew so serious that King Edward III himself intervened, and the city was placed under interdict. But by that time, 60 scholars had already been killed. Relations between town and gown have never been entirely amicable since...
...dream aircraft that takes off vertically like a helicopter, but flies horizontally like a proper airplane, is gradually coming true. Last week, at Fort Worth, Bell Aircraft Corp. showed a prototype convertiplane. It looks like an airplane, but it has two helicopter rotors projecting from nacelles on the tips of its stubby wings...
...Bell does not say much about the VTOL's speed and cargo capacity. The present model, the company explains, was put together from existing components to prove that a jet plane can really rise like a helicopter. A more advanced model is being designed, and Bell believes that the swiveled-engine principle will eventually be used in both military and commercial airplanes...
...Video Theater (Thurs. 10 p.m., NBC). Edmond O'Brien in A Bell for Adano...