Word: bells
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Take-Off. At the bell in Yankee Stadium last week, the jug-eared, roundheaded Johansson pawed tentatively with a left jab, kept his right cocked to launch the big punch. He did not seem too heavily muscled, but the tip-off of his power came late in the first round when he threw his very first right hand. Though it was a glancing blow, the 182-lb. Patterson blinked...
...sound truck stood waiting last week, its horns pointed directly at the church. "It's the only way to get a crowd to listen to a speech these days," explained the politician in charge. "Catch them coming home from Mass." Finally the church bell rang, and a small crowd-oldsters and children mostly, the young adults having sped by on their bicycles-gathered to hear the candidate for the grand, if ornamental, job of President of the Republic of Ireland. Portly General Sean MacEoin, 65, the "Blacksmith of Ballinalee," the man who in the Great Trouble "refused to have...
...scientists of the Soviet Union . . . Poland, Czechoslovakia and China. If we do not get a proper perspective on the development of science in countries such as China, we shall not be able to act rationally, and will surely suffer a rude awakening in the not too distant future." ¶Bell Labs' Walter H. Brattain (1956 prize-co-inventor of the transistor) said that before World War II the U.S. was "a nation that offered asylum to independent and nonconformist thinking individuals," but after the war the Government went on classifying "anything that might possibly aid an enemy"-a program...
...Beatrice and Benedick, Rosemary Harris and Barry Morse make a strong pair of unwilling lovers, spitting out their wit with clarity and verve. Miss Harris properly "speaks poniards, and every word stabs"; and Morse "hath a heart as sound as a bell and his tongue is the clapper...
...attract mates over long distances. In one experiment, a female emperor in a gauze cage collected 127 males of her species in seven hours; male Chinese silkworm moths have been known to home in on intended mates from as far away as seven miles. Since a female under a bell jar will stir nothing in males on the outside only inches away, biologists have concluded that the secret of her charm must be an odor-from a substance so strong that a few molecules send males fluttering into the wind, and so selective that only males of her own species...