Word: belle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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High above the California desert, a needle-nosed aircraft dropped from the belly of a B50 mother ship, kicked in its rocket engines and flashed up to 126,000 ft., higher than man had ever flown before. The plane was Bell Aircraft Co.'s X-2 research plane (see SCIENCE), and the news of its record-breaking flight was a farewell accolade to the man who built it. At 62, Bell President Lawrence Dale Bell, for 45 years a pioneering airman, announced that he was moving over to board chairman, leaving the operation of the company to his second...
...stewards. They have a good life. They call their master 'Uncle.'" But he insisted that the proposal that slave ships be subject to seizure was an "imperialist device"-a typical trick of Western colonialism. Responding to the words "imperialism" and "colonialism" like fire horses to the bell, Asian and African nations lined up alongside Saudi Arabia, and were joined by the Soviet Union, always ready to have a go at the "imperialists." Sensitive to the colonial taunt, the British and French retreated, and settled for a declaration that slavery is a bad thing...
...paid" should have his license revoked, A.M.A. President Dwight Murray told the American Bar Association. And, he added, so should the lawyer who hired him. ¶ Without formal training, Midwife Josie Sizemore has delivered more than 2,000 babies in Kentucky's mountain counties of Clay, Leslie, Bell, Harlan and Knox. This week hundreds of the men and women she has "fetched" into the world gathered in Manchester for a reunion. Some were over 70; it was "Aunt" Josie's 110th birthday...
Like any new recruit in any army, Gabrielle felt that some of the discipline bordered on tyranny, and that some of the orders were indignities. When the bronze bell in the chapel campanile tolled, each nun was supposed to stop in her tracks, even to swallowing the syllable of an incomplete word, and move on to perform the appropriate devotion. Lapses of all kinds were confessed in a weekly culpa, and penances assigned, ranging from begging one's bowl of soup to kissing the feet of the ten oldest nuns. "Gaby" often found herself asking: "Am I truly called...
...when Jacob Mayer of the Ruhr's Bochumer Verein steelworks discovered a way to pour white-hot liquid steel into molds and cast the world's first steel bell, other foundrymen could not believe it. At the Paris Exposition of 1855 they launched an investigation, ran chemical tests, were persuaded that the bells were not cast-iron fakeries only after sledge hammers failed to crack them. Last week Bochumer Verein für Gusstahlfabrikation, A.G.,* once again amazed steelmen. Out of its mill came the largest piece of cast steel ever made-a rolling mill foundation block (housing...