Word: belle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bruce's first marriage (one daughter) to Andrew MelIon's daughter, Ailsa, ended in divorce in 1945. His present wife, the former Evangeline Bell, 35, is one of the most successful diplomatic hostesses in Europe. They have three children...
...Bell's HSL helicopter, a huge, tandem-rotored affair powered by a 2,400 h.p. engine and carrying a crew of four. The new whirlybird's job will be to protect U.S. convoys from enemy attack by hovering over the ocean, dunking a special sonar buoy into the water to listen for subs...
...have been known to run into trouble at high speeds. Near the sonic barrier, the turbulent air shoved aside by wings and fuselage offers so much resistance that to go still faster requires extravagant power. Given that power, some straight-winged planes do push through into supersonic flight, e.g., Bell's rocket-powered X-1 (TIME, April 18, 1949). But there are tense moments while they pass through disturbed...
...leave for work before 6 o'clock, and there are still some seats on the streetcar. We are joyful that we can sit down ... When we come home, my wife gets the last four sausages . . . we are joyful because we have a supper. We go to bed; the bell rings, and when I open the door, there are the police! They ask, 'Mr. Novak?' I answer, 'No, sir, he lives across the street,' and again we are most joyful that we are not arrested...
...word spread like lightning, and by the time Huissen's Saturday-night moviegoers had left the last showing of For Whom the Bell Tolls, all Holland had heard it on the 11 p.m. newscast. Next morning before sunup, hundreds of bicycle lamps twinkled along the long, flat roads as the faithful rode to the Dominicans' early Mass and overflowed the chapel...