Word: belled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...black shaped like a bell-tent...
Rutted Life. The man who becomes helplessly entwined in the search for Lundquist also proves to be an unexpected dropout. A 35-year-old professor of American history with a set of well-thumbed, uncontroversial lecture notes, Aaron Bell seemed passively content with this rutted life. A one-dimensional wife and a father and grandfather wasted by moral lethargy and televiewing did not make him appear out of the ordinary. But by the time he locates Lundquist living in the primitive, unwashed exile of a remote Appalachian cabin, Bell has also discovered himself-or what he calls the Lundquist within...
...mission fails. Lundquist remains at large. Bell stumbles back into Nomad's hands. But no amount of truth serum pumped into him by Nomad can cure him of exposure. Physical hardship, and the bitter fervor and wild-goat odor of the corpus Lundquist, have quickened his sense of human possibilities. He comes to believe that-contrary to the Declaration of Independence-happiness is not a goal to be pursued but something that overtakes a man only when he hits his full stride...
...sounded really simple. I'd seen goalies do it millions of times. And later that week, when I had a dream about it, it all came true just as LoPresti said it would. Cavanagh was barreling in, taking like bell, and here was Powers, making impossible saves. Kicking out blazers with his skate. Confeunding The Great Cavanagh with his poised knowledgeable technique. And Joey would miss...
Curtis'speech was preceded by a five-minute dirge sounded in the Lowell bell tower by the Lowell House society of Russian bell ringers...