Word: belled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tanker in mid-ocean and stealing a million dollars in nickels from the U.S. mint. A crony named Al G. Karp, who looks like a softball that sweats, springs him from the pen to enlist his help on a new scheme: to break a bank called Mission Bell in suburban Los Angeles...
...sitting quietly on the lawn in front of his house, George Foreman contemplates the same idea. "I'd like to be a veterinarian," he says, "and I can't wait forever to get started." Fighters often talk that way between matches. Then the sound of the bell and the clang of the cash register remind them of who they are and what they do for a living. At 3 a.m. next Wednesday in Kinshasa, two of the best will earn their...
Beirne was a restless, philosophical leader; he called three strikes against the Bell System in 1947, 1968 and 1971, but acknowledged that automation would dull the cutting edge of his union's major weapon. A member of the executive council of the CIO (later, AFL-CIO) since 1949, Beirne was one of the few labor leaders to support George McGovern's presidential campaign...
...going up further. Short-term rates may drop a bit if the Federal Reserve really does ease monetary policy, but long-term rates, such as those on bonds, are likely to stay up until the investors who buy them can be convinced that inflation is abating. Last week, Northwestern Bell Telephone Co. sold $150 million in bonds at 10.14%, a record for any unit...
...others: 1) Daniel Bell, 2) Noam Chomsky, 3) John Kenneth Galbraith, 4) Irving Howe, 5) Dwight Macdonald, 6) Susan Sontag, 7) Mary McCarthy...