Word: belled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dressed in colorful costumes from the '20s, they lifted their legs effortlessly into arabesques. The motion does not stop as the women join their partners in a finale of lunges, head rolls and turns with their arms carving angular shapes in the air. This breathless scene ended as a bell rings and a train whistle blows in the distance...
...antismoking battle has moved from public places to the workplace, where many companies have designated no-smoking areas for their employees. Some firms have found the cost of juggling desks too high and banned smoking entirely. Pacific Northwest Bell, with headquarters in Seattle, forbade the practice when it learned that remodeling would run $60,000. Other firms have reached the same conclusion after prolonged hassles. According to Sandy Robins, director of labor relations for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Jersey, the company "tried separating smokers from nonsmokers. We tried time restrictions. We had the air-conditioning system cleaned...
...Civil Rights Restoration Act now pending in both the House and the Senate is designed to close the loopholes in civil rights protection opened by the court's 1984 decision in Grove City College v. Bell. Unfortunately, the bill has been held up by anti-abortion forces in both houses, which have forced consideration of anti-abortion riders that might scuttle...
Cambridge may not have Taco Bell yet, and a craving for Wendy's still means a T-ride to Boston. But that doesn't really matter now that dining halls on campus provide fine facsimiles of fast food fare...
...gave up pen and pencil years ago, when he discovered the Smith-Corona manual portable typewriter. Toad loved his Smith-Corona. He played upon it like a flamboyant pianist. Now he massaged the keyboard tenderly through a quiet phrase, now he banged it operatically, thundering along to the chinging bell at the end of the line, where his left arm would abruptly fire into midair with a flourish and fling home the carriage return...