Word: belled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...knocked out Tony Zale in the twelfth round to win the middleweight title. He lost the crown to Jake LaMotta nine months later when he tore a left shoulder muscle in the first round, then gamely fought on virtually one-handed until he was unable to answer the bell for the tenth round. Scheduled for a rematch with LaMotta, the superstitious Cerdan consulted a fortuneteller, had Marcel Jr. spit in his hand, donned his lucky blue suit and boarded a plane for the U.S. in October 1949. "I win the title back," he said, "or I die." The Air France...
...told us all about a country boy who never learned to read or write, but who could play a guitar like ringing a bell...
...Bruce said, and the bell rang. After talking to a few morning classes about poetry. Hunched with the faculty in their dining room. The meatless aroma of Bar-B-Q beef on buns called me back seven years to my junior high. Here, though, they sold a-la-Carte Matzoh at 5c a sheet. Here, the students wore peace buttons and knew the names of their senator. They wore "Make Love Not War" buttons, but the boys still sat on one side of the cafeteria and the girls on the other...
...morning. But the ban against mass assemblies was still in effect, and some students decided to test it again. "We just couldn't believe they could tell us to leave," said one. "This is our campus." At high noon, youngsters began ringing the school's Victory Bell, normally used to celebrate a football triumph but rarely heard of late. About 1,000 students, some nervous but many joking, gathered on the Commons. Another 2,000 ringed the walks and buildings to watch...
...hero to reformers both inside and outside his country, has served as Prague's ambassador in Ankara since January. He has been stripped of all political power; two months after taking up his duties in Turkey, he was even suspended from the Communist Party. TIME Correspondent James Bell recently visited Ankara to find out what has happened to the man who sought to give Communism "a human face." Bell's report...