Word: belled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...climbing. At the same moment, Flight Engineer Fitch Robertson called out: "We have lost power on No. 4," meaning the right outboard engine of the plane's four fan jets. As Kimes reached for his controls, the huge jet yawed wildly to the right. A fire-alarm bell sounded, and a red warning light flashed on the instrument panel, indicating that No. 4 engine was on fire...
...garage. Like his wife, he frequently speaks in exclamation points. "I've got some lovely lamb chops here!" he shouts, coming in from a shopping trip. "One whole side of a baby lamb!" Two years ago, at 60, he retired from his position as public relations analyst at Bell Telephone, five years before compulsory retirement age. "Well, really," he said in explanation, "there were 70,000 people at the telephone company, and there was only one Phyllis McGinley. I felt I should nurture and do everything I could to help this great performer function...
Also honored with the doctor of laws degree were David E. Bell, formerly professor of Economics and now foreign aid administrator; Gaylord P. Harnwell, president of the University of Pennsylvania; Ridley Watts, '23, National Chairman of the Program for Harvard Medicine; and George D. Woods, president of the World Bank...
...public servant-turned-educator who turned public servant again, Bell was the third man selected for President-elect John Kennedy's government. He came to Washington as Director for the Budget Bureau and became foreign aid administrator in 1962. The citation called him "an able, selfless public servant upon whose kind depends the health of our democracy...
When word of the whispering waves reached Professor Robert H. Dicke and a group of Princeton physicists, the Bell observations seemed to fit neatly into the predictions of their own sweeping cosmological theory. Big Bang exponents, the Princeton scientists contend that the universe has had not a single bang but an infinite number. At undetermined intervals, they say, the universe contracts to a single mass, dissolving all its galaxies and the life they may carry into hot hydrogen. Then it expands once more...