Word: shelf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that were motive enough. But Kramer knows better. What justifies it for him finally is the comradeship and sense of celebration when the pounding stops-the feeling Victorian families must have had at Christmastime. The charade ends with Daddy happy for the moment, and a new trophy on the shelf: an unprecedented third world championship mounted on a field of broken collarbones. This psychic manipulation complements the military planning of the Packer High Command. Kramer starts on Tuesday-by Thursday it is too late-working up "an anger, then a hatred," to the point where on one occasion he considers...
Their goal is a 1,165-square-mile area off the offshore continental shelf, where natural gas is being tapped under water as deep as 600 feet. A collection of 100 offshore drilling rigs, some of them as tall as a 40-story building, are working on leases for which they have paid the federal government alone some $1.2 billion. Pushing slowly out to meet them are complex pipelaying barges that cost as much as $8,000,000 to build and $38,000 a day to operate. The area is "exploding with action," says William C. Keefe, president of Houston...
...power in order that he grow up, in order that he take the old primitive root of his life-giving philosophy-which required every man to go through battles, if the world would live, and every woman to bear a child-yes, take that root off the high attic shelf of some Prudie Parsely of a witch-ancestor and plant it in the smashed glass and burned brick of the 20th century's junkyard...
...WHAT HAS the Lampoon done? It has published a periodical which includes a couple of decent jokes, a shelf full of bad ones carved out of overworked motifs, a bunch of color photographs taken by the same guys who take pictures for Life, and five pages of Life advertising plus a mail-in Life subscription card...
...while waiting for their cars to be greased and oiled outside. The sleazy dining room is decorated with a rack of used shotguns and rifles, draped with a six-foot belt of machine-gun blanks. The counter area is brightened with stacks of knives, machetes, auto parts and a shelf of used pistols...