Word: belle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bell Ringers...
...Will." "And now," he said, "please permit me a personal note. Mrs. Eisenhower and I wish all of you . . . everywhere a very merry Christmas . . . God rest you; let nothing you dismay." The President flipped a switch, 2,100 lights winked on the nation's Christmas tree and a bell choir rang out O Come, All Ye Faithful...
Bobs & Sallies. For change-ringing purposes, a set of eight bells (called "Major") ranging from treble to tenor, are numbered one to eight. At the outset of a Plain Bob Major,t the bells are sounded in sequence (known as "rounds"), i.e., 12345678. Then changes are rung: 2143-6587, 24163857, 42618357, etc., through all the possible combinations. To complicate matters further, variations are obtained when the conductor calls for "bobs" or "singles" (two bells swap their places out of sequence or dodge backwards among other bells). Eight bells have been rung to their full "extent" (40,320 changes) only once...
...chemistry teacher, a solicitor's clerk, a printer, a policeman, an Oxford undergraduate, a divinity teacher, a market gardener and a physicist) ate a big predawn breakfast at the King's Head Hotel and, at 4 a.m., climbed the squat red-brick campanile of Taylor's bell foundry. Inside the ringing chamber, the eight ringers strapped a variety of containers to their legs, ranging from hot water bags to bicycle bottles (also known in the U.S. as "motormen's pals"). On shelves around them was a selection of food-chocolate, oranges, bananas, grapes, malted milk tablets...
...bell, were six clean handkerchiefs: Jesson was suffering from...