Word: belled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Other 1966-67 marquee names that will ring a bell and, as the producers calculate, the cash registers: John Raitt in A Joyful Noise; Vivien Leigh in Love and Other Games; Melina Mercouri in Never on Sunday; and Menasha Skulnik and Molly Picon in Chu Chem, a cynically commercial concoction billed as "a Zen Buddhist-Hebrew musical...
...July, 23,000 Communications Workers of America equipment installers have been reporting for work on a day-to-day basis at facilities of Western Electric Co., A.T. & T.'s manufacturing subsidiary. C.W.A. President Joseph A. Beirne, who has vowed to make the Western Electric settlement standard throughout the Bell System, last week rejected a company offer of a 3.4% wage increase. Beirne has. authority to call a strike at any time...
...unnecessarily shrill, considering how much mankind loves the stuff. Italians put Alfa-Romeo horns on Fiats, and sometimes honk until the battery goes dead. Long before the chuffy steam engine, the average town was anything but a hushed haven of peace and quiet; one need only sample the nonstop bell ringing, banging and conversational yelling that still goes on from dawn to dark in any little Spanish fishing village. Men make noise as a way of showing their vitality, and they welcome the noises others make as tokens against loneliness...
...most-used unit to measure sound is the decibel, named in honor of Alexander Graham Bell, and defined as the smallest difference in loudness that the human ear can detect...
...calls may turn out to be pretty low-key emergencies, but we'll have to accept them in all fairness to the ones which may really save a life, prevent a hold up, or get aid faster to an accident." If the six-month experiment works out, other Bell systems across the country are expected to follow suit. If so, they will only be catching up. Paris has already begun installing pay phones direct access to the operator in emergencies, and Londoners have long able to get help by simply dialing...