Word: rung
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...report the political campaign by talking to the voters." For his pains Reporter Lubell, 44, who has been ringing doorbells since 1948, has been bitten by three dogs, taken for a masher by housewives, a salesman by husbands, and once for a C.I.O. spy. But he has also rung a new bell in political reporting: by combining shoe leather with scholarly insight, he predicted both the Eisenhower victory ("possibly by a landslide") in 1952 and the Democratic recapture of Congress...
...where cheerful, cherubic, chain-smoking Don Cesare Polidori tends his flock in a section known for toughness even in tough Trastevere. Hard by the famous Thieves' Market is a district whose bitter poverty made it a hiving hotspot for trouble-brewing Communists, Don Cesare's bells had rung through every feast in the 14 years of his ministry. More important, perhaps, they rang when there was no feasting, for Don Cesare, troubled by the fact that more than half of his 15,000 parishioners voted Communist, conceived the idea of ringing the bells to break up party meetings...
...Song has contaminated it with what can only be called some pretty lousy English. So delicate and tasteful a play as this should not contain such lines as "I feel like I could fly" or--as Teresa exclaims when she looks to see if it is Antonio who has rung the bell...
...other bells hang in the arches on three sides of the tower. Chains attached to them extend to a control platform from which the principal player operates them. He controls the second and third largest bells with a foot lever connected by chains to the clappers. These bells are rung in unison with the big bell, giving a fundamental note which continues throughout the performance. The other bells must be adapted to this basic tone...
...bells will not be rung other than at the traditional times for their performance, Edmund M. Parsons '58, manager of the organization, said. These times include 12:30, 12:35, and 12:40 p.m. every Sunday, before high table, and on "special occasions...