Word: belled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Port-de-Bouc's solitary church bell struck six, the shrill blast of a ship's siren split the air. This was the deadline the British had set. If the 4,424 Palestine-barred Jews aboard three British prison ships in Port-de-Bouc's harbor failed to disembark, the British would order the ships to Germany...
...bridge the gap. Since January, planemakers have turned out only 145 multi-engined transports for the airlines and the saturation point is already at hand. To keep their heads above water, manufacturers have switched to new sidelines. Douglas is now making aluminum dinghies as well as bomber frames. Bell has gone into metal furniture and gasoline engines; Curtiss-Wright turns out textile spindles and film projectors. Even those companies still making money are having trouble keeping skilled labor crews and engineering staffs together, are trimming their sails for the day when present backlogs...
CERVANTES (256 pp.)-Aubrey F. G. Bell -University of Oklahoma Press...
...live in the shadow of great characters that they created. Most people know some of the adventures of Don Quixote. Few know much about his creator. This biography (written for the 400th anniversary of Cervantes' birth) is one of the few thorough lives of Cervantes in English. Biographer Bell is an Englishman who lives in British Columbia, An Iberic scholar, he has been assistant librarian of the British Museum and editor of The Oxford Book of Portuguese Verse...
...long as I have the maimed Spaniard secure, my slaves and my ships, nay the whole city will be safe." But when Cervantes finally got back to Spain, he found nothing but poverty and idleness. He had a wife, a mistress, and an illegitimate child to support. Says Biographer Bell: "We may suspect that his life at Madrid at this time was not unlike that of the soldier described in El Suez de los Di-vorcios [The Judge of the Divorce Court, a tale by Cervantes]. According to his satirical wife, this soldier earns nothing, goes to Mass, stands gossiping...