Word: belled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blacked miner who could "touch with his hand where the corn is green," the egocentric murderer of "Night Must Fall" is a good brain stifled by its environment. But unlike the poor laborer who is given educational outlet for his intelligence and goes on to Oxford, Dan, the former bell-hop, sailor and local lothario, takes to strangulation and ends on the gallows. Both are Welsh; both are Emlyn Williams; both are, as Dan himself expresses it, a piece of chocolate "with a soft center...
...departure highlighted a-general trend in Washington: many another able man had left since the end of the war, and for the same reason (Oscar Cox, Albert Browning, Abe Fortas, Daniel W. Bell, et aL). Congress was making motions towards raising its own salaries. The same would soon have to be done for administrative offices...
...fellow athlete trudged homeward, Vag had visions of sneaking down to the courts before breakfast some morning and getting in a fast game. The church bell couplet announced that five-thirty had arrived, just as they reached the corner at Eliot House. "Race you back," muttered Vag, disgustedly...
...world-famed, Nobel Prizewinning German poet-dramatist; in Agnetendorf, in now-Polish Silesia. A lone light in Germany's end-of-the-century literary darkness, he passed from his era's realism and social protest (The Weavers) to a new era's symbolistic fantasy (The Sunken Bell); in his old age was seized upon as a symbol of German culture by both the Nazis and their Soviet conquerors...
Finally, at 11:30, the big bell rang. After the delay, trading (in old futures at the new ceilings) was even more lively than usual. By week's end, all grain prices were up to their new ceilings at Chicago and the luckless "shorts" stood to lose their shirts. The Cargill suit was still pending. Robert Buckley (suspended from trading on a technicality) was still fighting mad and might go to court again. Nobody was selling confusion short...