Word: belled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Motors strike leaders showed no sign of losing heart: at a workers' rally they talked of "shock troops," "panzer divisions," "the biggest pillbox." Other strikes were threatened in the nationwide Bell Telephone System, in New York City Western Union offices...
Burned Up. In Monroe, Wis., desk policeman Herb Bolliger 1) got a frantic call for the fire department; 2) threw the fire switch-which wouldn't work; 3) raced to the fire station and yanked a bell cord-which broke; 4) whirled to rush back to the police station siren, tripped over a rope coil; 5) switched on the siren; 6) answered the phone again, heard: ". . . fire under control...
Smashing up nightclubs is a fairly common occurrence in Shanghai. There are plenty of incidents: four sailors walking into a Hong Kong shop, grabbing seven bottles of vodka and walking out; a G.I. slugging a pedicab driver because he rang his bell behind him; G.I.s driving their Army vehicle through the window of a bar because they thought they had been gypped...
...Come By and Come By Chance. They dotted their 6,000 miles of deeply indented coastline and the spruce and fir-studded hinterland with modest frame houses, often surrounded by little flower and vegetable gardens. Most made their living by codfishing; others went down into the submarine depths of Bell Island to mine iron ore. Still others cut pulpwood for the paper mills at modern Grand Falls and Corner Brook...
After six and a half hours, Dr. James E. Bell Jr. decided to improvise. He gave a shot of neostigmine-recently used to relax contracted muscles in polio and arthritis (TIME, Jan. 15) and a shot of atropine. In 15 minutes the bitten boy's abdomen began to soften, his legs relaxed a little. In an hour he was comfortable except for a slight headache...