Word: belled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...djinn-infested Nuba is marched out of his village in a procession headed by a goat wearing a big brass bell. Victim and goat are buried alive. When the bell stops ringing, the tribesmen know that the goat and the man are dead, and the djinn is banished. Recently explorers in the Otoros came across the graves of two crippled children and a deaf-&-dumb woman. Last week police arrested 22 tribesmen for murder...
...known as the uncrowned welterweight champion of the world, the man the champions were afraid to fight. Last week his big chance was at hand: Champ Marty Servo had retired with a bad nose. As No. 1 boxer-in-waiting, Sugar Ray had only to beat fellow Negro Tommy Bell to get the title. Sugar Ray's good friend Joe Louis dropped into his dressing room in Madison Square Garden with some advice: "You got to pace yourself, because you can get awful tired in 15 rounds." A few minutes later, 15,670 fans saw Sugar Ray Robinson...
Just before noon one day last week a B-29 labored into the skies over California's Muroc Army Air Base. To its duralumin bosom it clutched a precious burden: the Bell Aircraft Corp.'s rocket-propelled XS-1, a plane designed to fly more than 1,000 miles an hour. At 27,000 feet, the stub-winged, orange-colored XS-1 was released to begin its first power flight. It dropped heavily-300, 600, 800 feet. Then the rocket engine in its tail belched flame and it spurted ahead...
...naturally. He had been flying almost continuously for seven years, first by dint of washing planes at an airport near his grandfather's Greensburg, Pa. farm, then as a flying officer in the R.C.A.F., then as an ensign in the U.S. Navy and finally as a member of Bell's test staff...
FRESHMAN SOCCER--Minor Numerals--Charles W. Bailey, 2nd, Loring E. Batchelder, Captain James R. Bell, Jr., Edward E. Carroll, John R. Chase, Francis, F. Chen, Robert W. Forster, William H. Gilbert, William C. Harrop, Frederick M. Joseph, Robert D. Langmann, Kurt R. Machicao, Peter S. Morgan, Stuart H. Mudd, David L. Register, John D. Rimberg, Jonathan M. Spivak, Robert E. Toppan, Richard A. Wallace, Michael J. Scully, and Manager Peter N. Toulmin...