Word: bells
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Because of their fears, millions of Americans are arming themselves. "We're getting a lot of nice upper-class couples who are buying pistols," says James Bell Jr., vice president of Bell's Gun and Sport Inc. in Franklin Park, Ill. "They're even getting his-and-her guns." About 40% of Bell's clientele are female?young working women as well as elderly widows. Other weapons favored by frightened women: the old-fashioned hatpin, a tear-gas capsule, a can of oven cleaner (which contains...
...word is mendacity. In Measure for Measure, the key word is seem. Men seem to be what they are not. They delude themselves as to what they are. A form of the word appears in Act I, Scene 3, and it recurs like the tolling of a melancholy bell. Duke Vincentio (William Hutt) has decided to cede his authority for a while to his austere deputy, the rectitudinous Angelo (Brian Bedford). As the lordly duke dons monkish attire (he will seem to be a friar), he implies that he is testing Angelo: "Hence shall we see,/ If power change purpose...
...study of the changing attitudes of Americans toward work and time, by Sociologist Daniel Bell...
...forewarn of that danger, the Buenos Aires daily La Opinión last week published a front-page editorial entitled "For Whom the Bell Tolls." In an appeal for return to political decency by all groups, the paper intoned: "In the Argentina of today, the death of anyone diminishes the rest; the bells do not toll [just] for those killed [by political extremists], they toll for the rest of their compatriots...
...Bell determing the professional appointments "worthwhile" and "a step in the night direction said. "I just hope they will be followed by more...