Word: belled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lively afternoon keeping his young son out of crocodile pits and away from bears' paws, found that he had to go back the next day to see for himself what the zoo was really like. The pair who bore the brunt of the cover story were James Bell and Serrell Hillman, of our Chicago bureau-home of the cover subject, Marlin Perkins, director of the Lincoln Park...
Under a paralyzing blow to the jaw, Jimmy Doyle's body stiffened, and he fell backwards as though his heels were hinged to the floor. With what was left of instinct he fumbled blindly for the ropes, brushed them with clumsy gloves, and lay still. The bell rang and the round ended as the referee's count reached nine. Jimrny Doyle's handlers went to work with cold water and smelling salts. But Boxer Doyle fought no more...
Manhattan dealers began ringing Housewife Brunner's bell last week. Offers climbed from $1,000 to $2,000. Hastily Mrs. Brunner transferred her prize to a bank vault, and moved her china cabinet over a few feet to hide the bare spot where her Homer had been...
...ships under construction, including some new-type high-speed submarines and the 45,000-ton battleship Kentucky, now 70% completed as a platform for launching guided missiles. At a demonstration on the West Coast last fortnight the Army & Navy showed off some new aircraft:* the rocket-propelled Bell XS-1 (TIME, Dec. 23), designed to reach a supersonic 1,000 m.p.h.; the Navy's carrier-based XFJ-1 jet fighter; Consolidated Vultee's gigantic six-motored B-36, the "Flying Cigar," which can carry a 10,000-lb. bomb load 5,000 miles and return to base; Consolidated...
...which he keeps a loaded revolver ("I am high on the list of those with whom the Communists would gladly dispense"); his telephone is out of sight on the floor ("I hate to look at it"). He is still a romantic, considers Farewell to Arms and For Whom the Bell Tolls the greatest love stories since La Chartreuse de Parme. One of the few characteristics he shares with the more ordinary type of pressagent is an occasionally high opinion of himself. Says he: "T. E. Lawrence resembled me in many ways . . . a genuine hero...