Word: peal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Austria's role is puzzling. The graven newsreel image of the Anschluss-the day that Hitler forcibly joined Austria to the Reich- is one of jubilation: jackbooted, goose-stepping infantry welcomed by cascades of flowers and the joyous peal of church bells'. Vienna-born Walter Maass, who specializes in wartime history (The Netherlands at War, Assassination in Vienna), strives to explain the complexities behind that event, and Austria's increasingly reluctant role during the seven years of Nazi rule (1938-45) that followed. Country Without a Name (Austria was absorbed into Germany as an assemblage of Nazi...
...June air was torn by the peal of church bells, the buzz of helicopters, the crackle of loudspeaker commands, the waves of thundering applause, the melodious drone of old hymns, the murmur of Masses being said, dozens of them, beneath the burning sun of an early Polish summer...
...Memorial Church bells signaling the 8:45 a.m. prayer service interrupted their slumber will no doubt be pleased by the Rev. Peter J. Gomes's announcement this week that the bells will only ring two minutes in the future, a 60 per cent reduction of the traditional five-minute peal. Ask not, of course, for whom the bells toll...
...words were never very good for background sound. Her music was properly lilting and soothing and all that, but the primary appeal was always her lyrics: the universal qualities of lover relationships she captured in her songs. As background, the words just tumbled over each other in the breathless peal of her voice, and wafted around with the warm air that's wasted at the tops of rooms...
Korda is so obsessed by style as the key to power that his book reads like The Prince by Matchabelli. He believes that shoes should be the five-eyelet type from Peal & Co., Ltd. and must always be highly shined. Expensive, thin briefcases are out. A man making less than $50,000 should carry only an old, battered two-handle briefcase. A thin leather portfolio is proper between $50,000 and $100,000. A man who makes more than that should not carry a briefcase...