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...began flowing to Britain in June, arriving by tanker from the Argyll field. Energy Secretary Anthony Wedgwood Benn, raising a flask of crude on high, called the event cause for "a day of national celebration." Next month oil should begin moving from Britain's promising Forties field through a 120-mile pipeline to Cruden Bay on Scotland's east coast. Some time during the next few weeks, crude will begin arriving at Teesside, England, through a 220-mile pipeline from the Ekofisk field in Norway's sector of the North Sea. The oil belongs to Norway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: High Costs, High Stakes on the North Sea | 9/29/1975 | See Source »

...Harvard fan is the undergrad, with his date from Pine Manor who he is taking to the game. He wears a tweed jacket over a sweater to the stadium, and brings a blanket to sit on and a thermos of milk punch or a flask to stay warm...

Author: By William E. Stedman jr., | Title: Harvard Athletics: A Casual Romance | 9/1/1974 | See Source »

...primitive energy permeated all Matisse's work, even a still life like The Blue Cloth, 1909; the whorls and cusps of the fabric, ultramarine laid into azure, twist and leap with the exuberance of dolphins, and are duly stabilized by the squat, familiar forms of coffeepot and flask. "Our only object is wholeness," Matisse declared. "We must learn, perhaps relearn, to express ourselves by means of line. Plastic art will inspire the most direct emotion possible by the simplest of means." And once art gained that absolute concreteness of sensation, it could become the "subject" for other art, just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Riches from Russia | 4/2/1973 | See Source »

SAIGON--South Vietnamese paratroopers battled communist troops near the outskirts of Quang Tri yesterday and other clashes broke out along the western flask of the northern counteroffensive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vietnamese Battle Near Quang Tri | 7/3/1972 | See Source »

...suit which hadn't seen a pressing in months. He was living on the income from a sinecure given him by a sympathetic Republican governor, in a dingy Back Bay apartment. That night, standing in the front parlor of O'Brien's Funeral Home, reeking of liquor, with a flask filled with John Jameson's in his pocket, he was living testimony to the fact that a Boston Irishman couldn't make it in Brahma society...

Author: By Michael Ryan, | Title: Ancestors and Immigrants | 4/17/1972 | See Source »

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