Word: belle
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...ground before lunchtime on harvest day. The whirlybird is proving a heaven-sent device for motion-picture directors; a camera fixed in a helicopter can hang motionless high in the sky over battle scenes, or follow the U.S. Cavalry to the rescue through the steepest canyons. Four Bell helicopters, two dressed like boys and the others like girls, do square dances above the crowds at aviation shows...
...Nimmos are a farm family, bitterly poor and sternly religious. They are also a game clan. Knocked down in one round of human experience, they are eagerly up at the bell for another. Most of the time in Except the Lord, young Chester is busy picking himself up off the floor...
...been novelists who believed that a set of characters would give themselves away dramatically if forced into close, catalytic quarters. Favorite places to bring out the best and worst in people have been ships, planes, hotels, tropic outposts, small combat units, African safaris. It remained for Novelist John (A Bell for Adano, The Wall) Hersey to put his characters to the test in a modern-day woodchuck roundup. None of the people in The Marmot Drive like each other very much to begin with. When Hester comes up from New York for a weekend...
...firm refusal to drop his divorce suit, Alexandra drew blood from one wrist with a penknife, later declared she would have finished the job if, just then, her aunt, Greece's Queen Frederika, had not phoned. When Peter heard how his wife had been saved by the bell, he growled: "This is the fourth time . . . It's nothing serious...
TAPANESE planemakers, who once turned out 28,000 aircraft a year, are tooling up again. They have been granted rights to build such U.S. planes as the Beechcraft T-34 trainer and the Bell Model 47 helicopter, expect to find markets for the planes in Asia...