Word: belled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Controversial Amendment. "The Christmas Eve session began with a deceptive, commencement-like air. White-mustached, bell-voiced Wong Wen-yu, Minister of Economics, presided. Delegates busily brushed autographs, bade farewells, talked about the long trips home. The Constitution's second reading rippled toward a finish. Then up for reconsideration came a controversial amendment to Article...
...used to long pants. At 16, he produced a gasoline engine (which flopped). Most of his inventions were concerned with radio and its neighboring fields. In 1912, when he was 24, he steered a boat by radio control from Boston to Gloucester. He collaborated with Alexander Graham Bell on long distance telephony, pioneered in vacuum tubes, frequency modulation, television. In 1933, the U.S. Government paid $750,000 for Hammond patents...
...improve McCall's. Warner thought Wiese's first report too frivolous, asked for another. Wiese handed it in one morning, came back after lunch to find that he was the new editor. He shuddered at his heritage. Said he: "Burton had bought up enough high-priced Harold Bell Wright-type of fiction to last five years...
Sugar Ray got up slowly, and with a lot more respect for Tommy Bell's left hook. For six rounds, he followed Louis' advice, relying on jab-&-retreat rather than toe-to-toe mayhem. When he finally cut loose in the eleventh, Robinson had Bell glassy-eyed and ready for a K.O.-but lacked the strength to drive home the finishing punch. After hearing himself announced as new welterweight champ, Sugar Ray stood in his corner, dog-tired and happy, but not quite the world-beater he was cracked...
...been a tall man before he was bowed by his disgusting sickness, and even now he walked with a vigorous step. The dismal beating oj his bell, the pattering of the stick, the eyeless screen before his countenance, and the knowledge that he was not only doomed to death and suffering, but shut out forever from the touch of his fellowmen, filled the lads' bosoms with dismay; and at every step that brought him nearer, their courage and strength seemed to desert them...