Word: belle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...above them, the Tera River, swollen by a fortnight of rain, was held in check by a stone and concrete dam built two years ago. The only explanation of the now deafening thunder was that the dam had burst. Electrician Rey scrambled up the church tower, began ringing the bell in alarm. Father Plácido started waking his neighbors. Some few fled with him across the only bridge and climbed the opposite hillside. Others raced to the church tower or to high ground...
Among the many delights of the Reading Period, certainly none is more welcome than the Sunday serenade from the Lowell Bell Tower. Although these concerts provide, week in and week out, the greatest source of pleasure to the music-loving public in Cambridge, they seem particularly enjoyable at this otherwise bleak season of the year. One always fears that the pressures of studying may dampen the bell-ringers' wonted enthusiasm, and their devoted following was relieved by yesterday's unusually outstanding concert...
...student at Macalester College, St. Paul, Minn., where I had Hubert Humphrey as a professor of political science, it was no surprise to me that his "lesson" to Nikita Khrushchev should have lasted eight hours. Many times his classes (1943-45) would run beyond the end-of-the-class bell-sometimes through the dinner hour and into the evening. He was a stimulating teacher, and he would be an excellent choice for President...
...Bell System's current 500 telephone, designed by Henry Dreyfuss...
...Bell Telephone Hour (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Adventures in Music, with Harry Belafonte, Renata Tebaldi, Maurice Evans, Duo Pianists Gold and Fizdale, the New York City Ballet and the Baird puppets...