Word: bellow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...International). One wild, dark night on the Mexican altiplanicie, the wind screamed and the rain beat and the lightning felled a great branch on a cow, a mother of fighting bulls. By sheer might of instinct, the valiant beast survived long enough to drop her bull calf and to bellow until help came. It was a small boy (Michel Ray), the son of a Mexican vaquero, who found the hungry black buster where he wailed indignantly in the cold and wet, and carried him back to finish his first night in a warm bed. Gitano (gypsy) the boy called...
SEIZE THE DAY, by Saul Bellow (21 I pp.; Viking; $3), is a collection of four stories and a one-act play by the author of the 1953 bestseller, The Adventures of Augie March. In his latest adventures, Author Bellow suggests that money is not only the root of all evil but also of all plot. "Money," muses one character who doesn't have any, "surrounds you in life as the earth does in death." Tommy Wilhelm, the fortyish hero of the title story, has a mind as empty as his pocket. Unemployed, dunned by his estranged wife, rebuffed...
Aneurin Bevan, the aging enfant terrible of the British Labor Party, erupted, as he does periodically, to bellow a complaint against the West's men of God. Cried Nye Bevan: "I solemnly say to the churches of mankind, to the leaders of religion here and in the United States, that they are guilty of blasphemy! They describe the Russians as a nation of God-haters, as a nation of atheists. Well, comrades, strip from your mind all the delusions you are fond of harboring ... It is from the God-haters that the proposal [to ban H-bombs] has come...
Campaign posters plastered the stately palms on Lima's Avenida Arequipa, crusted the city's statues, napped from every wall. Neon lights blinked political slogans, and the bellow of the sound truck was heard in the land. In Peru this week, the eight-year rule of a military strongman was coming to a surprising climax in a wide-open presidential election...
...eyes; between them, Wolfgang, trotting along in a vacuum of bliss and ideas, a quiet little man, looking up at each in turn to catch the last outrageous remark and cap it with some Salzburger dreckiger Witz (dirty joke) that made them pound his slight back and bellow with...