Word: belled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back after a year of high society, "For Whom the Bell Tolls" returns at popular prices, still dragging a multitude of pros and cons in its political wake. As soon as it was produced in the fall of 1943, Director Sam Wood was hauled over a bed of hot coals not only for toning down Hemingway's use of sex and swearing, but also for deliberately dodging the political issue at stake, notably by calling Franc's men Nationalists rather than Fascists...
...free each week while that same issue was still on sale right here at home. And the copy of our Pony Edition which Correspondent Bill Gray flew to Manila in his pocket a few weeks ago was read aloud to the internees at Santo Tomas by rescued Newscaster Don Bell of NBC. Said Gray: "Listeners accustomed to news a year old gasped, 'That's 1945!' Tears came to many eyes...
...would the War Manpower Commission enforce its curfew? Most WMC offices did not know. Said an official in Seattle: "The curfew shall ring, but for whom the bell tolls we know not." Most police forces eyed the new rule without enthusiasm...
...hubbub and hostility would end. Not many really thought the bruised and battered Defense Minister would ask the Prime Minister to relieve him of his job. But that possibility could not be ruled out. Said the Ottawa Journal: "Many experts [believe] that McNaughton won't answer the bell [for the next round], that Mackenzie King . . . will advise him to throw in the towel...
...Said Dr. Bernard Iddings Bell, didactic Episcopal churchman: "The modern American university . . . will not face fundamental moral issues. . . . It ignores God and thinks and acts as though man is a creature who only needs to know the right in order to do it. The result . . . is an academic befuddlement which makes American university education today not a guide out of confusion into order but only an additional source of confusion...