Word: belled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then, at 7:55 p.m. (E.W.T.), the Associated Press sent a bulletin from San Francisco: "Germany has surrendered. . . [says] a high American official." Radio newscasters pounced on the flash and boosted it across the land. The story, by A.P.'s reliable Jack Bell, went on to say that the surrender was actually to have been announced earlier, but was unavoidably delayed...
...Lieut. General Sir Miles C. Dempsey's British shelled Bremen and Hamburg at close range. The German Navy, however, did not fight. The admiral commanding the German North Sea naval district headquarters at Buxtehude surrendered to Dempsey's 11th Armored Division, which captured 500 women auxiliaries, in bell-bottomed trousers and coats of navy blue. The 11th also captured a circus, fully "operational" except for two wounded bears...
Chunky, beetle-browed Rev. Bernard Iddings Bell, 58, frequently chides the church he loves. This week at Dartmouth College, the Episcopal clergyman, taking a gloomy prophet's view of the San Francisco conference, spoke harsh words to Christians who want their peace both just and durable. Said...
...Other votes: two for Harvey; one each for A Bell for Adano and / Remember Mama. One critic voted that no award be made...
...retreating Germans left behind them an extensive system of telephone communications which they thought would be useless because they had removed key radio vacuum tubes. U.S. officers found one tube was a unique German design; none like it had ever been made in the U.S. But engineers of the Bell Telephone Laboratories mastered its secret in less than 24 hours. Within three days they had made eight exact copies. Within three weeks 1,000 tubes were at the front and the telephone system was in operation...