Word: belle
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...bell ringing and ceremonies can seem interminable, the parties and balls insufferably glitzy. Still, when the actual moment comes for the new President to raise his hand, take the oath and address his countrymen for the first time as their Chief Executive, all the old cliches come freshly true. It is a majestic combination of continuity and change. It does mark a peaceful transfer of awesome power, as remarkable for its ordinariness in the U.S. as for its rarity in the rest of the world. It does for a moment unite all Americans, however they voted, in hope that their...
...Corporation refused last summer to grant the former Weld Professor of Law Derek A. Bell an extension beyond the two-year limit. Bell was taking time off to protest the Law School's failure to hire a Black woman professor...
...AGENDA FOR ASTRONAUTS ABOARD THE SPACE shuttle Endeavour includes launching a communications satellite, walking in space, chatting with students about weightlessness, ringing a tiny replica of the Liberty Bell to mark Clinton's Inauguration. Oh, and yes, they'll be trying out a new toothbrush holder (price: $200,000) and an improved space toilet that cost an astronomical $23 million...
...president-elect arrived in town on Sunday,after traveling from Thomas Jefferson's Monticellohome to the Abraham Lincoln Memorial--stopping forchurch services and to ring a replica of theLiberty Bell after crossing the Potomac...
...convinced that dark matter not only exists but exists in great quantity. Much of the evidence comes from the kinds of motions Zwicky noted and also from the mysteriously rapid rotation rates of individual star systems, particularly those known as spiral galaxies. Another clue, uncovered largely by AT&T Bell Laboratories astrophysicist J. Anthony Tyson, is the bending of light from distant galaxies. The light is presumably distorted by the gravitational pull of invisible matter...