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...village of Bazouges-du-Désert, in Brittany, the apples grow big and sweet, and the Calvados (apple brandy) is a potable that is more in demand than the local water. In the town one morning last week the biggest bell in the church tower began to peal. It was a familiar but urgent tocsin of alarm. Government tax collectors had been sighted. The revenuers were looking for illegal Calvados and unlicensed stills...
...clouds. Chanting the Kyrie Eleison, the twelve bearded metropolitans and their five alternates solemnly filed in and dropped their ballots into a silver urn. When the votes were counted, eleven were for Athenagoras and six were blank. "Axios!" (worthy) roared the crowd, and the cathedral bells began to peal...
...Pedro, San Antonio. Then he silences them, each in turn, until only Santo Angel de la Guarda, sweetest-toned of all, tolls softly, a sign that down below in the cathedral the sermon is being preached. At the Gloria, he swings up his arms and all 18 bells peal out. José, the bellringer, stands on tiptoes, his fists thrust toward the sky, pure ecstasy on his face...
Three weeks after the House of Commons had debated newly defined Canadian citizenship, members had a go at another nationalistic proposal: that a committee should be appointed to choose a distinctive national flag for Canada. For six hours the chamber rocked with the roll and peal of patriotic oratory...
...suicide rocket bomb, fitted with a pilot's cockpit, steering controls and an explosive warhead in the nose. It may have been modeled after the pilotless German V-i robomb, which it resembles in size and destructive capacity. Japanese broadcasts have glorified it under the name Jinrai ("sudden peal of thunder"), but U.S. fighting men promptly tagged it with another Japanese term, baka ("stupid"). In operation, Stupid is carried near its target by a bomber, then cut loose. The pilot glides down and can fire three rockets in the tail to give him bursts of speed for his death...