Word: belled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bell Strikes 12. The divergence between his aims and his mother's was growing wider. In the boom years Mrs. Wolfe speculated in real estate. Tom wished her success, but warned her against losing "the capacity for enjoyment. . . ." In the strange mixture of bad, sincere, flamboyant prose that ran through all his writing, he spoke his unhappy mind: "The golden years of my life are slipping by on stealthy feet at nightfall; there is a footprint in the dark, a bell strikes 12, and the flying year has gone. . . . The great play is yet unwritten; the great novel beats...
...Commuters also rang the bell on Wednesday, beating Adams 5 to 2, while Leverett had a big day at the plate, rolling up an 11 to 1 triumph over Eliot...
Checked In. In Howard, R.I., Joseph H. Fontaine rolled up to the gate of the state prison in a taxi, rang the bell, in formed the guard, "I've just been on a 36-hour leave...
...many a parish, shorn by the war of its change ringers, only a lone peal rang out the good tidings of Easter. But Londoners were especially delighted to hear St. Paul's bells ring the half-hour-long Stedman Cinques. Alfred B. Peck, for 40 years bell-ringer at the Cathedral, had long been awaiting this day. All through Britain's darkest hours he and his 13 assistants bad practiced regularly on the Cathedral's twelve-bell peal with a special muffling apparatus that prevented any sound...
Generals had learned, too. In the process, aircraft were sometimes badly used. Best example: the P-40, which was sent out in the early days, sometimes by necessity but sometimes with less excuse, to dogfight nimbler Zeros at high altitudes where the P-4O was second best. Another: Bell's P39 fighter, which the Russians proved was best used as a ground strafer...