Word: belled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Barring hitches. Carter was expected to name his Attorney General early this week: former Fifth Circuit Appeals Court Judge Griffin Bell, now a law partner of Carter Adviser Charles Kirbo. Two other appointments could come early in the week but are less certain: John T. Dunlop as Labor Secretary, a post he held under President Ford, and Minnesota Congressman Bob Bergland as Agriculture Secretary...
Celebrated Congresswoman from Texas ... Possible Attorney General or U.N. Ambassador . . . Age 40 . . . Commanding presence and great, bell-like voice . . . Daughter of a Houston Baptist preacher . . . Debating champ at Texas Southern University; graduated magna cum laude, 1956 . . . LL.B. from Boston University Law School, 1959 . . . Practiced civil law until entering politics in 1966 . . . Shrewd and moderate . . . In 1973 became first black woman ever sent to Congress from South . . . Won national acclaim on House Judiciary Committee during the Nixon impeachment hearings . . . Team player: loyally supports conservative Democrats when called...
Oscar Handlin, Daniel Bell...
...Most employees know the doctors, and we'd ask if he said he was a doctor and we didn't know him," said Carolyn M. Bell, a medical records file clerk...
...summon his aides he had a small silver bell, but he rarely used it. Alongside his lounge chair he kept a brown paper bag for his "contaminated" Kleenex insulation. When he wanted an aide, he snapped his finger smartly against the bag. His overlong fingernails produced a drumlike whaap whaap that brought an aide on the double...