Word: belled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other revealing book by a TIME & LIFE correspondent (and one that has climbed close to the top of the best-seller lists) is A Bell for Adano, John Hersey's story of what he learned as one of three correspondents who covered the occupation of Sicily for TIME & LIFE...
...given by the Council on Books in Wartime. "Incredibly honest-a triumph of free speech," says the Dallas Morning Times. "Hersey has circumvented censorship by putting his observations into fiction form. One of the most inspiring books of the season," writes the Portland Oregonian. The Army Times calls A Bell for Adano "a tough book, slashing and cutting at a system personified by one of the Army's most publicized generals." And the Atlanta Constitution says: "It makes you proud to be an American," but "it may well be the basis of a Congressional investigation...
Leila Drew rang the gate bell of the modernistic house at No. 1770 Calle Tronador. Inside, she passed two babies playing at a yard man's knee. She asked to see Señora Diligenti. The Señora was nervous and reluctant, but after a woman-to-woman sales talk Mrs. Drew got a look at the other three babies, in neat yellow cribs in a sunny downstairs nursery. She even had her hands on a picture of all five, when forceful Papa Diligenti (whose name means just what it looks like) came in and took it away...
...Wind, sold about 2,000 copies. Publishers considered 5,000 copies all they could risk on a first novel, used to brag in their ads if any first novel topped that figure. Now first novels like Charles Jackson's The Lost Weekend and John Hersey's A Bell For Adano have both sold nearly 35,000 copies. Most publishers, by tacit agreement, have stopped using sales figures in advertising because, with the Government stressing the paper shortage, big printings might be misunderstood...
...British officer who underwent a long operation to extract a bullet from his heart. Finally the surgeon gave up. The officer was still alive at last report. The tip of the bullet had worked its way into one of his heart chambers, swung like a clapper in a small bell with every heartbeat...